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McAllan L, Baranasic D, Villicaña S, Brown S, Zhang W, Lehne B, Adamo M, Jenkinson A, Elkalaawy M, Mohammadi B, Hashemi M, Fernandes N, Lambie N, Williams R, Christiansen C, Yang Y, Zudina L, Lagou V, Tan S, Castillo-Fernandez J, King JWD, Soong R, Elliott P, Scott J, Prokopenko I, Cebola I, Loh M, Lenhard B, Batterham RL, Bell JT, Chambers JC, Kooner JS, Scott WR. Integrative genomic analyses in adipocytes implicate DNA methylation in human obesity and diabetes. Nat Commun 2023; 14:2784. [PMID: 37188674 PMCID: PMC10185556 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38439-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 05/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023] Open
Abstract
DNA methylation variations are prevalent in human obesity but evidence of a causative role in disease pathogenesis is limited. Here, we combine epigenome-wide association and integrative genomics to investigate the impact of adipocyte DNA methylation variations in human obesity. We discover extensive DNA methylation changes that are robustly associated with obesity (N = 190 samples, 691 loci in subcutaneous and 173 loci in visceral adipocytes, P < 1 × 10-7). We connect obesity-associated methylation variations to transcriptomic changes at >500 target genes, and identify putative methylation-transcription factor interactions. Through Mendelian Randomisation, we infer causal effects of methylation on obesity and obesity-induced metabolic disturbances at 59 independent loci. Targeted methylation sequencing, CRISPR-activation and gene silencing in adipocytes, further identifies regional methylation variations, underlying regulatory elements and novel cellular metabolic effects. Our results indicate DNA methylation is an important determinant of human obesity and its metabolic complications, and reveal mechanisms through which altered methylation may impact adipocyte functions.
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- Liam McAllan
- Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
- MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
- MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
- MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
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- UCLH Bariatric Centre for Weight Loss, Weight Management and Metabolic and Endocrine Surgery, University College London Hospitals, Ground Floor West Wing, 250 Euston Road, London, NW1 2PG, UK
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- UCLH Bariatric Centre for Weight Loss, Weight Management and Metabolic and Endocrine Surgery, University College London Hospitals, Ground Floor West Wing, 250 Euston Road, London, NW1 2PG, UK
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- UCLH Bariatric Centre for Weight Loss, Weight Management and Metabolic and Endocrine Surgery, University College London Hospitals, Ground Floor West Wing, 250 Euston Road, London, NW1 2PG, UK
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- UCLH Bariatric Centre for Weight Loss, Weight Management and Metabolic and Endocrine Surgery, University College London Hospitals, Ground Floor West Wing, 250 Euston Road, London, NW1 2PG, UK
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- UCLH Bariatric Centre for Weight Loss, Weight Management and Metabolic and Endocrine Surgery, University College London Hospitals, Ground Floor West Wing, 250 Euston Road, London, NW1 2PG, UK
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- Imperial BRC Genomics Facility, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Imperial BRC Genomics Facility, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Imperial BRC Genomics Facility, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine and Sciences, James Black Centre, King's College London British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, 125 Coldharbour Lane, London, SE5 9NU, UK
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- Department of Clinical & Experimental Medicine, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium
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- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Pathology, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, W12 0HS, UK
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- Department of Clinical & Experimental Medicine, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
- People-Centred Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Federal Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russian Federation
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- Section of Genetics and Genomics, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine (TLGM), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 8A Biomedical Grove, Immunos, Level 5, Singapore, 138648, Singapore
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
- MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- UCLH Bariatric Centre for Weight Loss, Weight Management and Metabolic and Endocrine Surgery, University College London Hospitals, Ground Floor West Wing, 250 Euston Road, London, NW1 2PG, UK
- Centre for Obesity Research, Rayne Institute, Department of Medicine, University College, London, WC1E 6JJ, UK
- National Institute of Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, London, W1T 7DN, UK
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK
- MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, W12 0HS, UK
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK
- MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, W12 0HS, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK.
- MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London, W12 0NN, UK.
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK.
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, W12 0HS, UK.
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Hawe JS, Wilson R, Schmid KT, Zhou L, Lakshmanan LN, Lehne BC, Kühnel B, Scott WR, Wielscher M, Yew YW, Baumbach C, Lee DP, Marouli E, Bernard M, Pfeiffer L, Matías-García PR, Autio MI, Bourgeois S, Herder C, Karhunen V, Meitinger T, Prokisch H, Rathmann W, Roden M, Sebert S, Shin J, Strauch K, Zhang W, Tan WLW, Hauck SM, Merl-Pham J, Grallert H, Barbosa EGV, Illig T, Peters A, Paus T, Pausova Z, Deloukas P, Foo RSY, Jarvelin MR, Kooner JS, Loh M, Heinig M, Gieger C, Waldenberger M, Chambers JC. Genetic variation influencing DNA methylation provides insights into molecular mechanisms regulating genomic function. Nat Genet 2022; 54:18-29. [PMID: 34980917 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-021-00969-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2019] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
We determined the relationships between DNA sequence variation and DNA methylation using blood samples from 3,799 Europeans and 3,195 South Asians. We identify 11,165,559 SNP-CpG associations (methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTL), P < 10-14), including 467,915 meQTL that operate in trans. The meQTL are enriched for functionally relevant characteristics, including shared chromatin state, High-throuhgput chromosome conformation interaction, and association with gene expression, metabolic variation and clinical traits. We use molecular interaction and colocalization analyses to identify multiple nuclear regulatory pathways linking meQTL loci to phenotypic variation, including UBASH3B (body mass index), NFKBIE (rheumatoid arthritis), MGA (blood pressure) and COMMD7 (white cell counts). For rs6511961 , chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) validates zinc finger protein (ZNF)333 as the likely trans acting effector protein. Finally, we used interaction analyses to identify population- and lineage-specific meQTL, including rs174548 in FADS1, with the strongest effect in CD8+ T cells, thus linking fatty acid metabolism with immune dysregulation and asthma. Our study advances understanding of the potential pathways linking genetic variation to human phenotype.
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- Johann S Hawe
- Institute of Computational Biology, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
- Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Garching bei München, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Computational Biology, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
- Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Garching bei München, Germany
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- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore, Singapore
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Centre for Genomic Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Departments of Physiology and Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Cardiovascular Research Institute, National University Health Systems, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), partner site Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Neurogenomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), partner site Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute for Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), partner site Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department for Genomics of Common Diseases, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Departments of Physiology and Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, IBE, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust, Southall, UK
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- Research Unit Protein Science, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany
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- Research Unit Protein Science, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Munich-Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Computational Biology, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Hannover Unified Biobank, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Institute for Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Research Center for Cardiovascular Disease (DZHK), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Hannover, Germany
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
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- Departments of Physiology and Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Genomic Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Cardiovascular Research Institute, National University Health Systems, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore, Singapore.
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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- Institute of Computational Biology, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany.
- Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Garching bei München, Germany.
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
- German Research Center for Cardiovascular Disease (DZHK), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Hannover, Germany.
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- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore, Singapore.
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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Clark DW, Okada Y, Moore KHS, Mason D, Pirastu N, Gandin I, Mattsson H, Barnes CLK, Lin K, Zhao JH, Deelen P, Rohde R, Schurmann C, Guo X, Giulianini F, Zhang W, Medina-Gomez C, Karlsson R, Bao Y, Bartz TM, Baumbach C, Biino G, Bixley MJ, Brumat M, Chai JF, Corre T, Cousminer DL, Dekker AM, Eccles DA, van Eijk KR, Fuchsberger C, Gao H, Germain M, Gordon SD, de Haan HG, Harris SE, Hofer E, Huerta-Chagoya A, Igartua C, Jansen IE, Jia Y, Kacprowski T, Karlsson T, Kleber ME, Li SA, Li-Gao R, Mahajan A, Matsuda K, Meidtner K, Meng W, Montasser ME, van der Most PJ, Munz M, Nutile T, Palviainen T, Prasad G, Prasad RB, Priyanka TDS, Rizzi F, Salvi E, Sapkota BR, Shriner D, Skotte L, Smart MC, Smith AV, van der Spek A, Spracklen CN, Strawbridge RJ, Tajuddin SM, Trompet S, Turman C, Verweij N, Viberti C, Wang L, Warren HR, Wootton RE, Yanek LR, Yao J, Yousri NA, Zhao W, Adeyemo AA, Afaq S, Aguilar-Salinas CA, Akiyama M, Albert ML, Allison MA, Alver M, Aung T, Azizi F, Bentley AR, Boeing H, Boerwinkle E, Borja JB, de Borst GJ, Bottinger EP, Broer L, Campbell H, Chanock S, Chee ML, Chen G, Chen YDI, Chen Z, Chiu YF, Cocca M, Collins FS, Concas MP, Corley J, Cugliari G, van Dam RM, Damulina A, Daneshpour MS, Day FR, Delgado GE, Dhana K, Doney ASF, Dörr M, Doumatey AP, Dzimiri N, Ebenesersdóttir SS, Elliott J, Elliott P, Ewert R, Felix JF, Fischer K, Freedman BI, Girotto G, Goel A, Gögele M, Goodarzi MO, Graff M, Granot-Hershkovitz E, Grodstein F, Guarrera S, Gudbjartsson DF, Guity K, Gunnarsson B, Guo Y, Hagenaars SP, Haiman CA, Halevy A, Harris TB, Hedayati M, van Heel DA, Hirata M, Höfer I, Hsiung CA, Huang J, Hung YJ, Ikram MA, Jagadeesan A, Jousilahti P, Kamatani Y, Kanai M, Kerrison ND, Kessler T, Khaw KT, Khor CC, de Kleijn DPV, Koh WP, Kolcic I, Kraft P, Krämer BK, Kutalik Z, Kuusisto J, Langenberg C, Launer LJ, Lawlor DA, Lee IT, Lee WJ, Lerch MM, Li L, Liu J, Loh M, London SJ, Loomis S, Lu Y, Luan J, Mägi R, Manichaikul AW, Manunta P, Másson G, Matoba N, Mei XW, Meisinger C, Meitinger T, Mezzavilla M, Milani L, Millwood IY, Momozawa Y, Moore A, Morange PE, Moreno-Macías H, Mori TA, Morrison AC, Muka T, Murakami Y, Murray AD, de Mutsert R, Mychaleckyj JC, Nalls MA, Nauck M, Neville MJ, Nolte IM, Ong KK, Orozco L, Padmanabhan S, Pálsson G, Pankow JS, Pattaro C, Pattie A, Polasek O, Poulter N, Pramstaller PP, Quintana-Murci L, Räikkönen K, Ralhan S, Rao DC, van Rheenen W, Rich SS, Ridker PM, Rietveld CA, Robino A, van Rooij FJA, Ruggiero D, Saba Y, Sabanayagam C, Sabater-Lleal M, Sala CF, Salomaa V, Sandow K, Schmidt H, Scott LJ, Scott WR, Sedaghati-Khayat B, Sennblad B, van Setten J, Sever PJ, Sheu WHH, Shi Y, Shrestha S, Shukla SR, Sigurdsson JK, Sikka TT, Singh JR, Smith BH, Stančáková A, Stanton A, Starr JM, Stefansdottir L, Straker L, Sulem P, Sveinbjornsson G, Swertz MA, Taylor AM, Taylor KD, Terzikhan N, Tham YC, Thorleifsson G, Thorsteinsdottir U, Tillander A, Tracy RP, Tusié-Luna T, Tzoulaki I, Vaccargiu S, Vangipurapu J, Veldink JH, Vitart V, Völker U, Vuoksimaa E, Wakil SM, Waldenberger M, Wander GS, Wang YX, Wareham NJ, Wild S, Yajnik CS, Yuan JM, Zeng L, Zhang L, Zhou J, Amin N, Asselbergs FW, Bakker SJL, Becker DM, Lehne B, Bennett DA, van den Berg LH, Berndt SI, Bharadwaj D, Bielak LF, Bochud M, Boehnke M, Bouchard C, Bradfield JP, Brody JA, Campbell A, Carmi S, Caulfield MJ, Cesarini D, Chambers JC, Chandak GR, Cheng CY, Ciullo M, Cornelis M, Cusi D, Smith GD, Deary IJ, Dorajoo R, van Duijn CM, Ellinghaus D, Erdmann J, Eriksson JG, Evangelou E, Evans MK, Faul JD, Feenstra B, Feitosa M, Foisy S, Franke A, Friedlander Y, Gasparini P, Gieger C, Gonzalez C, Goyette P, Grant SFA, Griffiths LR, Groop L, Gudnason V, Gyllensten U, Hakonarson H, Hamsten A, van der Harst P, Heng CK, Hicks AA, Hochner H, Huikuri H, Hunt SC, Jaddoe VWV, De Jager PL, Johannesson M, Johansson Å, Jonas JB, Jukema JW, Junttila J, Kaprio J, Kardia SLR, Karpe F, Kumari M, Laakso M, van der Laan SW, Lahti J, Laudes M, Lea RA, Lieb W, Lumley T, Martin NG, März W, Matullo G, McCarthy MI, Medland SE, Merriman TR, Metspalu A, Meyer BF, Mohlke KL, Montgomery GW, Mook-Kanamori D, Munroe PB, North KE, Nyholt DR, O'connell JR, Ober C, Oldehinkel AJ, Palmas W, Palmer C, Pasterkamp GG, Patin E, Pennell CE, Perusse L, Peyser PA, Pirastu M, Polderman TJC, Porteous DJ, Posthuma D, Psaty BM, Rioux JD, Rivadeneira F, Rotimi C, Rotter JI, Rudan I, Den Ruijter HM, Sanghera DK, Sattar N, Schmidt R, Schulze MB, Schunkert H, Scott RA, Shuldiner AR, Sim X, Small N, Smith JA, Sotoodehnia N, Tai ES, Teumer A, Timpson NJ, Toniolo D, Tregouet DA, Tuomi T, Vollenweider P, Wang CA, Weir DR, Whitfield JB, Wijmenga C, Wong TY, Wright J, Yang J, Yu L, Zemel BS, Zonderman AB, Perola M, Magnusson PKE, Uitterlinden AG, Kooner JS, Chasman DI, Loos RJF, Franceschini N, Franke L, Haley CS, Hayward C, Walters RG, Perry JRB, Esko T, Helgason A, Stefansson K, Joshi PK, Kubo M, Wilson JF. Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes. Nat Commun 2019; 10:4957. [PMID: 31673082 PMCID: PMC6823371 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12283-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2018] [Accepted: 08/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
In many species, the offspring of related parents suffer reduced reproductive success, a phenomenon known as inbreeding depression. In humans, the importance of this effect has remained unclear, partly because reproduction between close relatives is both rare and frequently associated with confounding social factors. Here, using genomic inbreeding coefficients (FROH) for >1.4 million individuals, we show that FROH is significantly associated (p < 0.0005) with apparently deleterious changes in 32 out of 100 traits analysed. These changes are associated with runs of homozygosity (ROH), but not with common variant homozygosity, suggesting that genetic variants associated with inbreeding depression are predominantly rare. The effect on fertility is striking: FROH equivalent to the offspring of first cousins is associated with a 55% decrease [95% CI 44-66%] in the odds of having children. Finally, the effects of FROH are confirmed within full-sibling pairs, where the variation in FROH is independent of all environmental confounding.
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- David W Clark
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, Scotland
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- Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
- Laboratory of Statistical Immunology, Immunology Frontier Research Center (WPI-IFReC), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
| | | | - Dan Mason
- Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Bradford, BD96RJ, UK
| | - Nicola Pirastu
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, Scotland
| | - Ilaria Gandin
- Research Unit, Area Science Park, Trieste, 34149, Italy
- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - Hannele Mattsson
- Unit of Public Health Solutions, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Catriona L K Barnes
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, Scotland
| | - Kuang Lin
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
| | - Jing Hua Zhao
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
- Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Patrick Deelen
- Department of Genetics, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands, Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands
| | - Rebecca Rohde
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, USA
| | - Claudia Schurmann
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA
| | - Xiuqing Guo
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, 90502, USA
| | - Franco Giulianini
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
| | - Weihua Zhang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK
| | - Carolina Medina-Gomez
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, The Netherlands
| | - Robert Karlsson
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden
| | - Yanchun Bao
- Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK
| | - Traci M Bartz
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Biostatistics and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
| | - Clemens Baumbach
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, 85764, Germany
| | - Ginevra Biino
- Institute of Molecular Genetics, National Research Council of Italy, Pavia, 27100, Italy
| | - Matthew J Bixley
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9054, New Zealand
| | - Marco Brumat
- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - Jin-Fang Chai
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 117549, Singapore
| | - Tanguy Corre
- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, 1011, Switzerland
- Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
| | - Diana L Cousminer
- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
| | - Annelot M Dekker
- Department of Neurology, Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CX, The Netherlands
| | - David A Eccles
- Genomics Research Centre, School of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, 4059, Australia
- Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand
| | - Kristel R van Eijk
- Department of Neurology, Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CX, The Netherlands
| | - Christian Fuchsberger
- Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Bolzano, 39100, Italy
| | - He Gao
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
| | - Marine Germain
- INSERM UMR_S 1166, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, 75013, France
- ICAN Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, 75013, France
| | - Scott D Gordon
- QIMR Berghofer Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
| | - Hugoline G de Haan
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2333 ZA, The Netherlands
| | - Sarah E Harris
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
- Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
| | - Edith Hofer
- Clinical Division of Neurogeriatrics, Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, 8036, Austria
- Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, 8036, Austria
| | - Alicia Huerta-Chagoya
- CONACyT, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico, 03940, México
| | - Catherine Igartua
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
| | - Iris E Jansen
- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
- Alzheimer Center Department of Neurology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, 1081HV, The Netherlands
| | - Yucheng Jia
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, 90502, USA
| | - Tim Kacprowski
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
- Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, 85354, Germany
| | - Torgny Karlsson
- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75108, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Marcus E Kleber
- Vth Department of Medicine (Nephrology, Hypertensiology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, Diabetology), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, 68167, Germany
| | - Shengchao Alfred Li
- Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Lab for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, USA
| | - Ruifang Li-Gao
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2333 ZA, The Netherlands
| | - Anubha Mahajan
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK
| | - Koichi Matsuda
- Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate school of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
| | - Karina Meidtner
- Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Weihua Meng
- Medical Research Institute, Ninewells Hospital and School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
| | - May E Montasser
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
| | - Peter J van der Most
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands
| | - Matthias Munz
- Institute for Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, 23562, Germany
- DZHK (German Research Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Hamburg/Lübeck/Kiel, Lübeck, 23562, Germany
- University Heart Center Luebeck, Lübeck, 23562, Germany
- Charité - University Medicine Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Sciences, Department of Periodontology and Synoptic Dentistry, Berlin, Germany
| | - Teresa Nutile
- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics A. Buzzati-Traverso - CNR, Naples, 80131, Italy
| | - Teemu Palviainen
- Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Gauri Prasad
- Genomics and Molecular Medicine Unit, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, 110020, India
| | - Rashmi B Prasad
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, 20502, Sweden
| | - Tallapragada Divya Sri Priyanka
- Genomic Research on Complex diseases (GRC Group), CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500007, India
| | - Federica Rizzi
- ePhood Scientific Unit, ePhood SRL, Bresso (Milano), 20091, Italy
- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milano, Milano, 20139, Italy
| | - Erika Salvi
- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milano, Milano, 20139, Italy
- Neuroalgology Unit, IRCCS Foundation Carlo Besta Neurological Institute, Milano, 20133, Italy
| | - Bishwa R Sapkota
- Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, 73104, USA
| | - Daniel Shriner
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-5635, USA
| | - Line Skotte
- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, DK-2300, Denmark
| | - Melissa C Smart
- Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK
| | - Albert Vernon Smith
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, 201, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
| | - Ashley van der Spek
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
| | | | - Rona J Strawbridge
- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8RZ, UK
- Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 76, Sweden
| | - Salman M Tajuddin
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore City, Maryland, 21224, USA
| | - Stella Trompet
- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2300 RC, the Netherlands
- Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2300RC, the Netherlands
| | - Constance Turman
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - Niek Verweij
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Ther Netherlands, Groningen, 9713 GZ, the Netherlands
| | - Clara Viberti
- Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM) and Dept. Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Italy, Turin, 10126, Italy
| | - Lihua Wang
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, 63110-1093, USA
| | - Helen R Warren
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
| | - Robyn E Wootton
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK
- School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TU, UK
| | - Lisa R Yanek
- Department of Medicine, GeneSTAR Research Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
| | - Jie Yao
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, 90502, USA
| | - Noha A Yousri
- Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar, Doha, Qatar
- Computer and Systems Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
| | - Wei Zhao
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
| | - Adebowale A Adeyemo
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-5635, USA
| | - Saima Afaq
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
| | - Carlos Alberto Aguilar-Salinas
- Departamento de Endocrinología y Metabolismo, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico, 14080, México
- Unidad de Investigacion de Enfermades Metabolicas, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Monterrey, N.L., 64710, México
| | - Masato Akiyama
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
- Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
| | - Matthew L Albert
- Immunobiology of Dendritic Cells, Institut Pasteur, Paris, 75015, France
- Inserm U1223, Paris, 75015, France
- Centre for Translational Research, Institut Pasteur, Paris, 75015, France
- Department of Cancer Immunology, Genentech Inc, San Francisco, California, 94080, USA
| | - Matthew A Allison
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, 92093, USA
| | - Maris Alver
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
| | - Tin Aung
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore, 169856, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, 169857, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 119228, SG, Singapore
| | - Fereidoun Azizi
- Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 19839-63113, Iran
| | - Amy R Bentley
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-5635, USA
| | - Heiner Boeing
- Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany
| | - Eric Boerwinkle
- Health Science Center at Houston, UTHealth School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
| | - Judith B Borja
- USC-Office of Population Studies Foundation, Inc., Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Talamban, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, 6000, Cebu, Philippines
| | - Gert J de Borst
- Department of Vascular Surgery, Division of Surgical Specialties, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Utrecht, 3584 CX, Netherlands
| | - Erwin P Bottinger
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA
- Digital Health Center, Hasso Plattner Institute, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, 14482, Germany
| | - Linda Broer
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
| | - Harry Campbell
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, Scotland
| | - Stephen Chanock
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
| | - Miao-Li Chee
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore, 169856, Singapore
| | - Guanjie Chen
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-5635, USA
| | - Yii-Der I Chen
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, 90502, USA
| | - Zhengming Chen
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
| | - Yen-Feng Chiu
- Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan, Taiwan
| | - Massimiliano Cocca
- Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, 34137, Italy
| | - Francis S Collins
- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, USA
| | - Maria Pina Concas
- Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, 34137, Italy
| | - Janie Corley
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
| | - Giovanni Cugliari
- Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM) and Dept. Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Italy, Turin, 10126, Italy
| | - Rob M van Dam
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 117549, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119228, SG, Singapore
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA
| | - Anna Damulina
- Clinical Division of Neurogeriatrics, Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, 8036, Austria
| | - Maryam S Daneshpour
- Cellular and Molecular Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 19839-63113, Iran
| | - Felix R Day
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Graciela E Delgado
- Vth Department of Medicine (Nephrology, Hypertensiology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, Diabetology), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, 68167, Germany
| | - Klodian Dhana
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA
- Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - Alexander S F Doney
- MEMO Research, Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD19SY, UK
| | - Marcus Dörr
- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
| | - Ayo P Doumatey
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-5635, USA
| | - Nduna Dzimiri
- Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, KSA, 12713, Saudi Arabia
| | - S Sunna Ebenesersdóttir
- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik 101, Iceland
- Department of Anthropology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
| | - Joshua Elliott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
| | - Paul Elliott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London, London, UK
- UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) at Imperial College London, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK - London, London, England
| | - Ralf Ewert
- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
| | - Janine F Felix
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, The Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015CN, The Netherlands
| | - Krista Fischer
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
| | - Barry I Freedman
- Section on Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27101, US
| | - Giorgia Girotto
- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
- Medical Genetics, Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy
| | - Anuj Goel
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
| | - Martin Gögele
- Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Bolzano, 39100, Italy
| | - Mark O Goodarzi
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, 90048, USA
| | - Mariaelisa Graff
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, USA
| | | | - Francine Grodstein
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - Simonetta Guarrera
- Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM) and Dept. Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Italy, Turin, 10126, Italy
| | - Daniel F Gudbjartsson
- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik 101, Iceland
- School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
| | - Kamran Guity
- Cellular and Molecular Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 19839-63113, Iran
| | | | - Yu Guo
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, China
| | - Saskia P Hagenaars
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
- Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, SE5 8AF, UK
| | - Christopher A Haiman
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 90089, USA
| | - Avner Halevy
- Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
| | - Tamara B Harris
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore City, Maryland, 21224, USA
| | - Mehdi Hedayati
- Cellular and Molecular Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 19839-63113, Iran
| | - David A van Heel
- Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 2AT, UK
| | - Makoto Hirata
- Laboratory of Genome Technology, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
| | - Imo Höfer
- Laboratory of Clinical Chemistry and Hematology, Division Laboratories and Pharmacy, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Utrecht, 3584 CX, Netherlands
| | - Chao Agnes Hsiung
- Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan, Taiwan
| | - Jinyan Huang
- Shanghai Institute of Hematology, State Key Laboratory Of Medical Genomics, Rui-jin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, 200025, China
| | - Yi-Jen Hung
- Division of Endocrine and Metabolism, Tri-Service General Hospital Songshan branch, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan
| | - M Arfan Ikram
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
| | - Anuradha Jagadeesan
- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik 101, Iceland
- Department of Anthropology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
| | - Pekka Jousilahti
- Unit of Public Health Promotion, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Yoichiro Kamatani
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
- Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan
| | - Masahiro Kanai
- Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - Nicola D Kerrison
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Thorsten Kessler
- Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Klinik für Herz- und Kreislauferkrankungen, Technische Universität München, Munich, 80636, Germany
| | - Kay-Tee Khaw
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, UK
| | - Chiea Chuen Khor
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore, 169856, Singapore
- Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore, 138672, Singapore
| | - Dominique P V de Kleijn
- Department of Vascular Surgery, Division of Surgical Specialties, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Utrecht, 3584 CX, Netherlands
| | - Woon-Puay Koh
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 117549, Singapore
- Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, 169857
| | - Ivana Kolcic
- Centre for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - Peter Kraft
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA
| | - Bernhard K Krämer
- Vth Department of Medicine (Nephrology, Hypertensiology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, Diabetology), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, 68167, Germany
| | - Zoltán Kutalik
- Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
| | - Johanna Kuusisto
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Claudia Langenberg
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Lenore J Launer
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore City, Maryland, 21224, USA
| | - Deborah A Lawlor
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK
- Bristol NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK
- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, Bristol, BS8 2BY, UK
| | - I-Te Lee
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taipei, 112, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Taichung City, 402, Taiwan
| | - Wen-Jane Lee
- Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Taiwan
| | - Markus M Lerch
- Department of Internal Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
| | - Liming Li
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University Health Science Centre, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China
| | - Jianjun Liu
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119228, SG, Singapore
- Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore, 138672, Singapore
| | - Marie Loh
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore (A*STAR), Singapore, 138648, Singapore
- Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 117596, Singapore
| | - Stephanie J London
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, 27709, USA
| | - Stephanie Loomis
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
| | - Yingchang Lu
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA
| | - Jian'an Luan
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Reedik Mägi
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
| | - Ani W Manichaikul
- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Paolo Manunta
- Genomics of Renal Diseases and Hypertension Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Università Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milano, 20132, Italy
| | - Gísli Másson
- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik 101, Iceland
| | - Nana Matoba
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
| | - Xue W Mei
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
| | - Christa Meisinger
- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Independent Research Group Clinical Epidemiology, Neuherberg, 85764, Germany
| | - Thomas Meitinger
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Neuherberg, 85764, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, 81675, Germany
- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, 80802, Germany
| | - Massimo Mezzavilla
- Medical Genetics, Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy
| | - Lili Milani
- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
| | - Iona Y Millwood
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
| | - Yukihide Momozawa
- Laboratory for Genotyping Development, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
| | - Amy Moore
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
| | - Pierre-Emmanuel Morange
- Laboratory of Haematology, La Timone Hospital, Marseille, France
- INSERM UMR_S 1263, Center for CardioVascular and Nutrition research (C2VN), Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
| | | | - Trevor A Mori
- Medical School, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia/Australia, 6009, Australia
| | - Alanna C Morrison
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA
| | - Taulant Muka
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
| | - Yoshinori Murakami
- Division of Molecular Pathology, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
| | - Alison D Murray
- The Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK
| | - Renée de Mutsert
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2333 ZA, The Netherlands
| | - Josyf C Mychaleckyj
- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Mike A Nalls
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
- Data Tecnica International LLC, Glen Echo, MD, 20812, USA
| | - Matthias Nauck
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
| | - Matt J Neville
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, UK
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
| | - Ilja M Nolte
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands
| | - Ken K Ong
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
- Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Lorena Orozco
- Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica, Mexico, 14610, México
| | - Sandosh Padmanabhan
- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8TA, UK
| | | | - James S Pankow
- Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55454, USA
| | - Cristian Pattaro
- Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Bolzano, 39100, Italy
| | - Alison Pattie
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
| | - Ozren Polasek
- Centre for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
- Gen-info Ltd, Zagreb, Croatia, Zagreb, Select a Province, 10000, Croatia
| | - Neil Poulter
- International Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Imperial Clinical Trials Unit, Imperial College London, London, London, W12 7TA, UK
| | - Peter P Pramstaller
- Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Bolzano, 39100, Italy
| | - Lluis Quintana-Murci
- Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, 75015, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR2000, Paris, 75015, France
- Center of Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Integrative Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, 75015, France
| | - Katri Räikkönen
- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00014, Finland
| | - Sarju Ralhan
- Hero Heart Institute and Dyanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
| | - Dabeeru C Rao
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
| | - Wouter van Rheenen
- Department of Neurology, Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CX, The Netherlands
| | - Stephen S Rich
- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Paul M Ridker
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - Cornelius A Rietveld
- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3062 PA, The Netherlands
- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3062 PA, The Netherlands
| | - Antonietta Robino
- Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, 34137, Italy
| | - Frank J A van Rooij
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
| | - Daniela Ruggiero
- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics A. Buzzati-Traverso - CNR, Naples, 80131, Italy
- IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS), 86077, Italy
| | - Yasaman Saba
- Gottfried Schatz Research Center (for Cell Signaling, Metabolism and Aging), Division of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Medical University of Graz, 8010, Graz, Austria
| | - Charumathi Sabanayagam
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore, 169856, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, 169857, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 119228, SG, Singapore
| | - Maria Sabater-Lleal
- Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 76, Sweden
- Unit of Genomics of Complex Diseases, Institut de Recerca Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, IIB-Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
| | | | - Veikko Salomaa
- Department of Public Health Solutions, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, FI-00271, Finland
| | - Kevin Sandow
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, 90502, USA
| | - Helena Schmidt
- Gottfried Schatz Research Center (for Cell Signaling, Metabolism and Aging), Division of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Medical University of Graz, 8010, Graz, Austria
| | - Laura J Scott
- Department of Biostatistics, and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA
| | - William R Scott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
| | - Bahareh Sedaghati-Khayat
- Cellular and Molecular Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 19839-63113, Iran
| | - Bengt Sennblad
- Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 76, Sweden
- Dept of Cell and Molecular Biology, National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SE-752 37, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Jessica van Setten
- Department of Cardiology, Division Heart & Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Utrecht, 3485 CX, Netherlands
| | - Peter J Sever
- International Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
| | - Wayne H-H Sheu
- School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan
- Institute of Medical Technology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Taiwan
| | - Yuan Shi
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore, 169856, Singapore
| | - Smeeta Shrestha
- Genomic Research on Complex diseases (GRC Group), CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500007, India
- School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Dayananda Sagar University, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560078, India
| | - Sharvari Rahul Shukla
- Diabetes Unit, KEM Hospital and Research Centre, Pune, Maharashtra, 411101, India
- Symbiosis Statistical Institute, Symbiosis International University, Pune, Maharashtra, 411007, India
| | | | - Timo Tonis Sikka
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
| | | | - Blair H Smith
- Division of Population Health Sciences, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK
| | - Alena Stančáková
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Alice Stanton
- RCSI Molecular & Cellular Therapeutics (MCT), Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, RCSI Education & Research Centre, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland
| | - John M Starr
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
- Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, Scotland
| | | | - Leon Straker
- School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia/Australia, 6102, Australia
| | | | | | - Morris A Swertz
- Department of Genetics, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands, Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands
| | - Adele M Taylor
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
| | - Kent D Taylor
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, 90502, USA
| | - Natalie Terzikhan
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, 9000, Belgium
| | - Yih-Chung Tham
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore, 169856, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, 169857, Singapore
| | | | - Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik 101, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
| | - Annika Tillander
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden
| | - Russell P Tracy
- Department of Pathology, University of Vermont, Colchester, VT, 05446, USA
| | - Teresa Tusié-Luna
- Departamento de Medicina Genómica y Toxicología Ambiental, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, UNAM, Mexico, 04510, México
- Unidad De Biología Molecular y Medicina Genómica, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico, 14080, México
| | - Ioanna Tzoulaki
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, 45110, Greece
| | - Simona Vaccargiu
- Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research - Support Unity, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy
| | - Jagadish Vangipurapu
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Jan H Veldink
- Department of Neurology, Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CX, The Netherlands
| | - Veronique Vitart
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, Scotland
| | - Uwe Völker
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
| | - Eero Vuoksimaa
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
| | - Salma M Wakil
- Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, KSA, 12713, Saudi Arabia
| | - Melanie Waldenberger
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, 85764, Germany
| | - Gurpreet S Wander
- Department of Cardiology, Hero DMC Heart Institute, Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, 141001, India
| | - Ya Xing Wang
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing, China, 100005, China
| | - Nicholas J Wareham
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Sarah Wild
- Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute of Population Health and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, Scotland
| | | | - Jian-Min Yuan
- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Lingyao Zeng
- Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Klinik für Herz- und Kreislauferkrankungen, Technische Universität München, Munich, 80636, Germany
| | - Liang Zhang
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore, 169856, Singapore
| | - Jie Zhou
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-5635, USA
| | - Najaf Amin
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
| | - Folkert W Asselbergs
- Department of Cardiology, Division Heart & Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Utrecht, 3584 CX, Netherlands
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, London, WC1E 6DD, UK
- Durrer Center for Cardiovascular Research, Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research and Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
| | - Stephan J L Bakker
- Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9713GZ, The Netherlands
| | - Diane M Becker
- Department of Medicine, GeneSTAR Research Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
| | - Benjamin Lehne
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
| | - David A Bennett
- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
| | - Leonard H van den Berg
- Department of Neurology, Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CX, The Netherlands
| | - Sonja I Berndt
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
| | - Dwaipayan Bharadwaj
- Systems Genomics Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India
| | - Lawrence F Bielak
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
| | - Murielle Bochud
- Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Mike Boehnke
- Department of Biostatistics, and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA
| | - Claude Bouchard
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiane, 70808, USA
| | - Jonathan P Bradfield
- Center for Applied Genomics, Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Quantinuum Research LLC, San Diego, CA, 92101, USA
| | - Jennifer A Brody
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
| | - Archie Campbell
- Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
| | - Shai Carmi
- Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
| | - Mark J Caulfield
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
| | - David Cesarini
- Center for Experimental Social Science, Department of Economics, New York University, New York, New York, 10012, USA
- Research Institute for Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, 102 15, Sweden
| | - John C Chambers
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 308232, Singapore
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, London, W12 0HS, UK
| | - Giriraj Ratan Chandak
- Genomic Research on Complex diseases (GRC Group), CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500007, India
| | - Ching-Yu Cheng
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore, 169856, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, 169857, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 119228, SG, Singapore
| | - Marina Ciullo
- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics A. Buzzati-Traverso - CNR, Naples, 80131, Italy
- IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS), 86077, Italy
| | - Marilyn Cornelis
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
| | - Daniele Cusi
- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milano, Milano, 20139, Italy
- Institute of Biomedical Technologies Milano, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Segrate (Milano), 20090, Italy
- Bio4Dreams Scientific Unit, Bio4Dreams SRL, Bio4Dreams - business nursery for life sciences, Milano, 20121, Italy
| | - George Davey Smith
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK
- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, Bristol, BS8 2BY, UK
| | - Ian J Deary
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
| | - Rajkumar Dorajoo
- Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore, 138672, Singapore
| | - Cornelia M van Duijn
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
| | - David Ellinghaus
- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, 24105, Kiel, Germany
| | - Jeanette Erdmann
- Institute for Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, 23562, Germany
| | - Johan G Eriksson
- Department of General Practice and Primary health Care, University of Helsinki, Tukholmankatu 8 B, Helsinki, 00014, Finland
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Unit of General Practice, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland
- Vasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
| | - Evangelos Evangelou
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, 45110, Greece
| | - Michele K Evans
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore City, Maryland, 21224, USA
| | - Jessica D Faul
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48014, USA
| | - Bjarke Feenstra
- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, DK-2300, Denmark
| | - Mary Feitosa
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, 63110-1093, USA
| | | | - Andre Franke
- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, 24105, Kiel, Germany
| | - Yechiel Friedlander
- Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
| | - Paolo Gasparini
- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
- Medical Genetics, Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy
| | - Christian Gieger
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, 85764, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Clicerio Gonzalez
- Centro de Estudios en Diabetes, Unidad de Investigacion en Diabetes y Riesgo Cardiovascular, Centro de Investigacion en Salud Poblacional, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Cuernavaca, 01120, México
| | | | - Struan F A Grant
- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Center for Applied Genomics, Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
| | - Lyn R Griffiths
- Genomics Research Centre, School of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, 4059, Australia
| | - Leif Groop
- Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, 20502, Sweden
| | - Vilmundur Gudnason
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, 201, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
| | - Ulf Gyllensten
- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75108, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Hakon Hakonarson
- Center for Applied Genomics, Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
| | - Anders Hamsten
- Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Stockholm, 171 76, Sweden
| | - Pim van der Harst
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Ther Netherlands, Groningen, 9713 GZ, the Netherlands
| | - Chew-Kiat Heng
- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Khoo Teck Puat - National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Andrew A Hicks
- Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Bolzano, 39100, Italy
| | - Hagit Hochner
- Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
| | - Heikki Huikuri
- Research Unit of Internal Medicine, Medical Research Center Oulu, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, 90014, Finland
| | - Steven C Hunt
- Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar, Doha, Qatar
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84108, USA
| | - Vincent W V Jaddoe
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, The Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015CN, The Netherlands
| | - Philip L De Jager
- Center for Translational & Computational Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, 650 West 168th street, PH19-311, Newyork, NY, 10032, USA
- Cell Circuits Program, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
| | - Magnus Johannesson
- Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, SE-113 83, Sweden
| | - Åsa Johansson
- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75108, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Jost B Jonas
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing, China, 100005, China
- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, 698167, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2300 RC, the Netherlands
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- Research Unit of Internal Medicine, Medical Research Center Oulu, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, 90014, Finland
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- Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, UK
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
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- Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Laboratory of Clinical Chemistry and Hematology, Division Laboratories and Pharmacy, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, 3584 CX, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00014, Finland
- Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00014, Finland
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- University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Campus Kiel, Kiel, 24105, Germany
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- Genomics Research Centre, School of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, 4059, Australia
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- Institute of Epidemiology and PopGen Biobank, University of Kiel, Kiel, Schleswig Holstein, 24105, Germany
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- Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Vth Department of Medicine (Nephrology, Hypertensiology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, Diabetology), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, 68167, Germany
- Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- Synlab Academy, Synlab Holding Deutschland GmbH, Mannheim, Germany
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- Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM) and Dept. Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Italy, Turin, 10126, Italy
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, UK
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
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- QIMR Berghofer Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9054, New Zealand
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- QIMR Berghofer Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2333 ZA, The Netherlands
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2333 ZA, The Netherlands
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- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, USA
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- QIMR Berghofer Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, QLD, 4059, Australia
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Pat Macpherson Centre for Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics, The School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK
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- Laboratory of Clinical Chemistry and Hematology, Division Laboratories and Pharmacy, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Utrecht, 3584 CX, Netherlands
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- Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, 75015, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR2000, Paris, 75015, France
- Center of Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Integrative Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, 75015, France
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- School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
- Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia/Australia, 6009, Australia
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- Department of kinesiology, Laval University, Quebec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada
- Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods, Laval University, Quebec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research - Support Unity, National Research Council of Italy, Sassari, 07100, Italy
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- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
- Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, 1081HV, The Netherlands
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Epidemiology, Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1J4, Canada
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, The Netherlands
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-5635, USA
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- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, 90502, USA
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, Scotland
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- Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, Division Heart & Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Utrecht, 3584 CX, Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, 73104, USA
- Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience, Oklahoma City, OK, 73104, USA
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8TA, UK
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- Clinical Division of Neurogeriatrics, Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, 8036, Austria
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- Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Nutritional Sciences, University of Potsdam, Nuthetal, Germany
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- Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Klinik für Herz- und Kreislauferkrankungen, Technische Universität München, Munich, 80636, Germany
- Deutsches Zentrum für Herz- und Kreislauferkrankungen (DZHK), Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, 80636, Germany
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc, Tarrytown, NY, 10591-6607, USA
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 117549, Singapore
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- Faculty of Health Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48014, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 117549, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119228, SG, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 169857, SG, Singapore
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK
- Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2PR, UK
- Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2PR, UK
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Endocrinology, Abdominal Centre, University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Folkhalsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
- Research Program of Diabetes and Endocrinology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, 1011, Switzerland
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- School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
- Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia/Australia, 6009, Australia
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- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48014, USA
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- QIMR Berghofer Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands, Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore, 169856, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, 169857, Singapore
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- Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Bradford, BD96RJ, UK
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- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
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- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19146, USA
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore City, Maryland, 21224, USA
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- Unit of Genomics and Biomarkers, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, 00271, Finland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Netherlands
- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, London, W12 0HS, UK
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA
- The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands, Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, Scotland
- Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, Scotland
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, Scotland
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- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MASSACHUSETTS, 02142, USA
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik 101, Iceland
- Department of Anthropology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik 101, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, Scotland
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- Laboratory for Genotyping Development, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, Scotland.
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, Scotland.
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Sung YJ, de las Fuentes L, Winkler TW, Chasman DI, Bentley AR, Kraja AT, Ntalla I, Warren HR, Guo X, Schwander K, Manning AK, Brown MR, Aschard H, Feitosa MF, Franceschini N, Lu Y, Cheng CY, Sim X, Vojinovic D, Marten J, Musani SK, Kilpeläinen TO, Richard MA, Aslibekyan S, Bartz TM, Dorajoo R, Li C, Liu Y, Rankinen T, Smith AV, Tajuddin SM, Tayo BO, Zhao W, Zhou Y, Matoba N, Sofer T, Alver M, Amini M, Boissel M, Chai JF, Chen X, Divers J, Gandin I, Gao C, Giulianini F, Goel A, Harris SE, Hartwig FP, He M, Horimoto ARVR, Hsu FC, Jackson AU, Kammerer CM, Kasturiratne A, Komulainen P, Kühnel B, Leander K, Lee WJ, Lin KH, Luan J, Lyytikäinen LP, McKenzie CA, Nelson CP, Noordam R, Scott RA, Sheu WHH, Stančáková A, Takeuchi F, van der Most PJ, Varga TV, Waken RJ, Wang H, Wang Y, Ware EB, Weiss S, Wen W, Yanek LR, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Afaq S, Alfred T, Amin N, Arking DE, Aung T, Barr RG, Bielak LF, Boerwinkle E, Bottinger EP, Braund PS, Brody JA, Broeckel U, Cade B, Campbell A, Canouil M, Chakravarti A, Cocca M, Collins FS, Connell JM, de Mutsert R, de Silva HJ, Dörr M, Duan Q, Eaton CB, Ehret G, Evangelou E, Faul JD, Forouhi NG, Franco OH, Friedlander Y, Gao H, Gigante B, Gu CC, Gupta P, Hagenaars SP, Harris TB, He J, Heikkinen S, Heng CK, Hofman A, Howard BV, Hunt SC, Irvin MR, Jia Y, Katsuya T, Kaufman J, Kerrison ND, Khor CC, Koh WP, Koistinen HA, Kooperberg CB, Krieger JE, Kubo M, Kutalik Z, Kuusisto J, Lakka TA, Langefeld CD, Langenberg C, Launer LJ, Lee JH, Lehne B, Levy D, Lewis CE, Li Y, Lim SH, Liu CT, Liu J, Liu J, Liu Y, Loh M, Lohman KK, Louie T, Mägi R, Matsuda K, Meitinger T, Metspalu A, Milani L, Momozawa Y, Mosley, Jr TH, Nalls MA, Nasri U, O'Connell JR, Ogunniyi A, Palmas WR, Palmer ND, Pankow JS, Pedersen NL, Peters A, Peyser PA, Polasek O, Porteous D, Raitakari OT, Renström F, Rice TK, Ridker PM, Robino A, Robinson JG, Rose LM, Rudan I, Sabanayagam C, Salako BL, Sandow K, Schmidt CO, Schreiner PJ, Scott WR, Sever P, Sims M, Sitlani CM, Smith BH, Smith JA, Snieder H, Starr JM, Strauch K, Tang H, Taylor KD, Teo YY, Tham YC, Uitterlinden AG, Waldenberger M, Wang L, Wang YX, Wei WB, Wilson G, Wojczynski MK, Xiang YB, Yao J, Yuan JM, Zonderman AB, Becker DM, Boehnke M, Bowden DW, Chambers JC, Chen YDI, Weir DR, de Faire U, Deary IJ, Esko T, Farrall M, Forrester T, Freedman BI, Froguel P, Gasparini P, Gieger C, Horta BL, Hung YJ, Jonas JB, Kato N, Kooner JS, Laakso M, Lehtimäki T, Liang KW, Magnusson PKE, Oldehinkel AJ, Pereira AC, Perls T, Rauramaa R, Redline S, Rettig R, Samani NJ, Scott J, Shu XO, van der Harst P, Wagenknecht LE, Wareham NJ, Watkins H, Wickremasinghe AR, Wu T, Kamatani Y, Laurie CC, Bouchard C, Cooper RS, Evans MK, Gudnason V, Hixson J, Kardia SLR, Kritchevsky SB, Psaty BM, van Dam RM, Arnett DK, Mook-Kanamori DO, Fornage M, Fox ER, Hayward C, van Duijn CM, Tai ES, Wong TY, Loos RJF, Reiner AP, Rotimi CN, Bierut LJ, Zhu X, Cupples LA, Province MA, Rotter JI, Franks PW, Rice K, Elliott P, Caulfield MJ, Gauderman WJ, Munroe PB, Rao DC, Morrison AC. A multi-ancestry genome-wide study incorporating gene-smoking interactions identifies multiple new loci for pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure. Hum Mol Genet 2019; 28:2615-2633. [PMID: 31127295 PMCID: PMC6644157 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddz070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2018] [Revised: 03/25/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Elevated blood pressure (BP), a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, is influenced by both genetic and lifestyle factors. Cigarette smoking is one such lifestyle factor. Across five ancestries, we performed a genome-wide gene-smoking interaction study of mean arterial pressure (MAP) and pulse pressure (PP) in 129 913 individuals in stage 1 and follow-up analysis in 480 178 additional individuals in stage 2. We report here 136 loci significantly associated with MAP and/or PP. Of these, 61 were previously published through main-effect analysis of BP traits, 37 were recently reported by us for systolic BP and/or diastolic BP through gene-smoking interaction analysis and 38 were newly identified (P < 5 × 10-8, false discovery rate < 0.05). We also identified nine new signals near known loci. Of the 136 loci, 8 showed significant interaction with smoking status. They include CSMD1 previously reported for insulin resistance and BP in the spontaneously hypertensive rats. Many of the 38 new loci show biologic plausibility for a role in BP regulation. SLC26A7 encodes a chloride/bicarbonate exchanger expressed in the renal outer medullary collecting duct. AVPR1A is widely expressed, including in vascular smooth muscle cells, kidney, myocardium and brain. FHAD1 is a long non-coding RNA overexpressed in heart failure. TMEM51 was associated with contractile function in cardiomyocytes. CASP9 plays a central role in cardiomyocyte apoptosis. Identified only in African ancestry were 30 novel loci. Our findings highlight the value of multi-ancestry investigations, particularly in studies of interaction with lifestyle factors, where genomic and lifestyle differences may contribute to novel findings.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yun Ju Sung
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
| | - Daniel I Chasman
- Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Amy R Bentley
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Aldi T Kraja
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Ioanna Ntalla
- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
| | - Helen R Warren
- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, London, UK
| | - Xiuqing Guo
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Karen Schwander
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Alisa K Manning
- Center for Human Genetics Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Centre de Bioinformatique, Biostatistique et Biologie Intégrative (C3BI), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Biostatistics and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia at Athens College of Public Health, Athens, GA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
| | - Tamar Sofer
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Maris Alver
- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Marzyeh Amini
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen RB, The Netherlands
| | - Mathilde Boissel
- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille, France
| | - Jin Fang Chai
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Xu Chen
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Jasmin Divers
- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Ilaria Gandin
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - Chuan Gao
- Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | | | - Anuj Goel
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
| | - Sarah E Harris
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine and MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Fernando P Hartwig
- Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Meian He
- Lab Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Cardiology, Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, CA, USA
| | - Andrea R V R Horimoto
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Fang-Chi Hsu
- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Anne U Jackson
- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
| | - Candace M Kammerer
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka
| | - Anuradhani Kasturiratne
- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Pirjo Komulainen
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Brigitte Kühnel
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Karin Leander
- Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Department of Social Work, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Wen-Jane Lee
- Ophthalmology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Keng-Hung Lin
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Jian’an Luan
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
| | - Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center—Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
| | - Colin A McKenzie
- School of Public Health, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, Tongi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
| | - Christopher P Nelson
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
| | - Raymond Noordam
- Internal Medicine, Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Robert A Scott
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
| | - Wayne H H Sheu
- Endocrinology and Metabolism, Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Yang-ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
- Institute of Medical Technology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Alena Stančáková
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Fumihiko Takeuchi
- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Peter J van der Most
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen RB, The Netherlands
| | - Tibor V Varga
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Robert J Waken
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Heming Wang
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Yajuan Wang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
| | - Erin B Ware
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Stefan Weiss
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Wanqing Wen
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Lisa R Yanek
- General Internal Medicine, GeneSTAR Research Program, Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Weihua Zhang
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
| | - Jing Hua Zhao
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
| | - Saima Afaq
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Tamuno Alfred
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, USA
| | - Najaf Amin
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Dan E Arking
- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Tin Aung
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - R Graham Barr
- Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
| | - Lawrence F Bielak
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Eric Boerwinkle
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Erwin P Bottinger
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, USA
| | - Peter S Braund
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
| | - Jennifer A Brody
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Ulrich Broeckel
- Section of Genomic Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Medicine and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
| | - Brian Cade
- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Archie Campbell
- Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Mickaël Canouil
- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille, France
| | - Aravinda Chakravarti
- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | | | - Francis S Collins
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - John M Connell
- Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
| | - Renée de Mutsert
- Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - H Janaka de Silva
- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka
| | - Marcus Dörr
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Qing Duan
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
| | - Charles B Eaton
- Department of Family Medicine and Epidemiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
| | - Georg Ehret
- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Cardiology, Department of Specialties of Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Evangelos Evangelou
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece
| | - Jessica D Faul
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Nita G Forouhi
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
| | - Oscar H Franco
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Yechiel Friedlander
- Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
| | - He Gao
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Bruna Gigante
- Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Department of Social Work, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - C Charles Gu
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Preeti Gupta
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Saskia P Hagenaars
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Tamara B Harris
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Jiang He
- Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
- Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
| | - Sami Heikkinen
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Finland
| | - Chew-Kiat Heng
- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Khoo Teck Puat—National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Albert Hofman
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Barbara V Howard
- MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD, USA
- Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences and Department of Medicine, Georgetown–Howard Universities, Washington, DC, USA
| | - Steven C Hunt
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Doha, Qatar
| | - Marguerite R Irvin
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
| | - Yucheng Jia
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Tomohiro Katsuya
- Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
- Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
| | - Joel Kaufman
- Epidemiology, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Nicola D Kerrison
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
| | - Chiea Chuen Khor
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Woon-Puay Koh
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Health Services and Systems Research, Duke–NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Heikki A Koistinen
- Department of Public Health Solutions, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Medicine and Abdominal Center: Endocrinology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Biomedicum 2U, Helsinki Finland
| | - Charles B Kooperberg
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Jose E Krieger
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Michiaki Kubo
- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
| | - Zoltan Kutalik
- Institute of Social Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Johanna Kuusisto
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Timo A Lakka
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Carl D Langefeld
- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | | | - Lenore J Launer
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Joseph H Lee
- Sergievsky Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
| | - Benjamin Lehne
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Daniel Levy
- NHLBI Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- The Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Cora E Lewis
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
| | - Yize Li
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | | | - Sing Hui Lim
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Ching-Ti Liu
- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Jianjun Liu
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Jingmin Liu
- WHI CCC, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Yeheng Liu
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Marie Loh
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
| | - Kurt K Lohman
- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Tin Louie
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Reedik Mägi
- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Koichi Matsuda
- Laboratory for Clinical Genome Sequencing, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Japan
| | - Thomas Meitinger
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - Andres Metspalu
- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Lili Milani
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Yukihide Momozawa
- Laboratory for Genotyping Development, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
| | | | - Mike A Nalls
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Ubaydah Nasri
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Jeff R O'Connell
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | | | | | | | - James S Pankow
- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA
| | - Nancy L Pedersen
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Annette Peters
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Patricia A Peyser
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Ozren Polasek
- Department of Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
- Psychiatric Hospital ‘Sveti Ivan’, Zagreb, Croatia
- Gen-info Ltd, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - David Porteous
- Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Olli T Raitakari
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
| | - Frida Renström
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Biobank Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden
| | - Treva K Rice
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Paul M Ridker
- Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Antonietta Robino
- Institute for Maternal and Child Health—IRCCS ‘Burlo Garofolo’, Trieste, Italy
| | - Jennifer G Robinson
- Department of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
| | - Lynda M Rose
- Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Igor Rudan
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Charumathi Sabanayagam
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
| | | | - Kevin Sandow
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Carsten O Schmidt
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Pamela J Schreiner
- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA
| | - William R Scott
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Peter Sever
- International Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Mario Sims
- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
| | - Colleen M Sitlani
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Blair H Smith
- Division of Population Health Sciences, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
| | - Jennifer A Smith
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Harold Snieder
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen RB, The Netherlands
| | - John M Starr
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Konstantin Strauch
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Genetic Epidemiology, IBE, Faculty of Medicine, LMU, Munich, Germany
| | - Hua Tang
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Kent D Taylor
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Yik Ying Teo
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
- Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Yih Chung Tham
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
| | - André G Uitterlinden
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Melanie Waldenberger
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Lihua Wang
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Ya Xing Wang
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
| | - Wen Bin Wei
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
| | - Gregory Wilson
- Jackson Heart Study, School of Public Health, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA
| | - Mary K Wojczynski
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Yong-Bing Xiang
- State Key Laboratory of Oncogene and Related Genes & Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, P.R. China
| | - Jie Yao
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Jian-Min Yuan
- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, UPMC Hillman Cancer, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
| | - Alan B Zonderman
- Behavioral Epidemiology Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Diane M Becker
- General Internal Medicine, GeneSTAR Research Program, Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Michael Boehnke
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Donald W Bowden
- Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - John C Chambers
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
| | - Yii-Der Ida Chen
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - David R Weir
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Ulf de Faire
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Ian J Deary
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Tõnu Esko
- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Martin Farrall
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
| | - Terrence Forrester
- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
| | - Barry I Freedman
- Nephrology, Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Philippe Froguel
- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille, France
- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Paolo Gasparini
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
- Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Doha, Qatar
| | - Christian Gieger
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Bernardo Lessa Horta
- Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
| | - Yi-Jen Hung
- Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei City, Taipei, Taiwan
| | - Jost Bruno Jonas
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
| | - Norihiro Kato
- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Jaspal S Kooner
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Markku Laakso
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Terho Lehtimäki
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center—Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
| | - Kae-Woei Liang
- School of Medicine, National Yang-ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Cardiovascular Center, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- Department of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Patrik K E Magnusson
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Albertine J Oldehinkel
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen RB, The Netherlands
| | - Alexandre C Pereira
- Lab Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Cardiology, Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, CA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Geriatrics Section, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
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- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Physiology, University of Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen RB, The Netherlands
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- Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
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- School of Public Health, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, Tongi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, USA
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- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Epidemiology, Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Dean’s Office, University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Cardiology, Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Health Services and Systems Research, Duke–NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
- Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, London, UK
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- Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, London, UK
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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de Vries PS, Brown MR, Bentley AR, Sung YJ, Winkler TW, Ntalla I, Schwander K, Kraja AT, Guo X, Franceschini N, Cheng CY, Sim X, Vojinovic D, Huffman JE, Musani SK, Li C, Feitosa MF, Richard MA, Noordam R, Aschard H, Bartz TM, Bielak LF, Deng X, Dorajoo R, Lohman KK, Manning AK, Rankinen T, Smith AV, Tajuddin SM, Evangelou E, Graff M, Alver M, Boissel M, Chai JF, Chen X, Divers J, Gandin I, Gao C, Goel A, Hagemeijer Y, Harris SE, Hartwig FP, He M, Horimoto ARVR, Hsu FC, Jackson AU, Kasturiratne A, Komulainen P, Kühnel B, Laguzzi F, Lee JH, Luan J, Lyytikäinen LP, Matoba N, Nolte IM, Pietzner M, Riaz M, Said MA, Scott RA, Sofer T, Stančáková A, Takeuchi F, Tayo BO, van der Most PJ, Varga TV, Wang Y, Ware EB, Wen W, Yanek LR, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Afaq S, Amin N, Amini M, Arking DE, Aung T, Ballantyne C, Boerwinkle E, Broeckel U, Campbell A, Canouil M, Charumathi S, Chen YDI, Connell JM, de Faire U, de las Fuentes L, de Mutsert R, de Silva HJ, Ding J, Dominiczak AF, Duan Q, Eaton CB, Eppinga RN, Faul JD, Fisher V, Forrester T, Franco OH, Friedlander Y, Ghanbari M, Giulianini F, Grabe HJ, Grove ML, Gu CC, Harris TB, Heikkinen S, Heng CK, Hirata M, Hixson JE, Howard BV, Ikram MA, Jacobs DR, Johnson C, Jonas JB, Kammerer CM, Katsuya T, Khor CC, Kilpeläinen TO, Koh WP, Koistinen HA, Kolcic I, Kooperberg C, Krieger JE, Kritchevsky SB, Kubo M, Kuusisto J, Lakka TA, Langefeld CD, Langenberg C, Launer LJ, Lehne B, Lemaitre RN, Li Y, Liang J, Liu J, Liu K, Loh M, Louie T, Mägi R, Manichaikul AW, McKenzie CA, Meitinger T, Metspalu A, Milaneschi Y, Milani L, Mohlke KL, Mosley TH, Mukamal KJ, Nalls MA, Nauck M, Nelson CP, Sotoodehnia N, O'Connell JR, Palmer ND, Pazoki R, Pedersen NL, Peters A, Peyser PA, Polasek O, Poulter N, Raffel LJ, Raitakari OT, Reiner AP, Rice TK, Rich SS, Robino A, Robinson JG, Rose LM, Rudan I, Schmidt CO, Schreiner PJ, Scott WR, Sever P, Shi Y, Sidney S, Sims M, Smith BH, Smith JA, Snieder H, Starr JM, Strauch K, Tan N, Taylor KD, Teo YY, Tham YC, Uitterlinden AG, van Heemst D, Vuckovic D, Waldenberger M, Wang L, Wang Y, Wang Z, Wei WB, Williams C, Wilson G, Wojczynski MK, Yao J, Yu B, Yu C, Yuan JM, Zhao W, Zonderman AB, Becker DM, Boehnke M, Bowden DW, Chambers JC, Deary IJ, Esko T, Farrall M, Franks PW, Freedman BI, Froguel P, Gasparini P, Gieger C, Horta BL, Kamatani Y, Kato N, Kooner JS, Laakso M, Leander K, Lehtimäki T, Magnusson PKE, Penninx B, Pereira AC, Rauramaa R, Samani NJ, Scott J, Shu XO, van der Harst P, Wagenknecht LE, Wang YX, Wareham NJ, Watkins H, Weir DR, Wickremasinghe AR, Zheng W, Elliott P, North KE, Bouchard C, Evans MK, Gudnason V, Liu CT, Liu Y, Psaty BM, Ridker PM, van Dam RM, Kardia SLR, Zhu X, Rotimi CN, Mook-Kanamori DO, Fornage M, Kelly TN, Fox ER, Hayward C, van Duijn CM, Tai ES, Wong TY, Liu J, Rotter JI, Gauderman WJ, Province MA, Munroe PB, Rice K, Chasman DI, Cupples LA, Rao DC, Morrison AC. Multiancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of Lipid Levels Incorporating Gene-Alcohol Interactions. Am J Epidemiol 2019; 188:1033-1054. [PMID: 30698716 PMCID: PMC6545280 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwz005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2018] [Revised: 01/05/2019] [Accepted: 01/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
A person's lipid profile is influenced by genetic variants and alcohol consumption, but the contribution of interactions between these exposures has not been studied. We therefore incorporated gene-alcohol interactions into a multiancestry genome-wide association study of levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglycerides. We included 45 studies in stage 1 (genome-wide discovery) and 66 studies in stage 2 (focused follow-up), for a total of 394,584 individuals from 5 ancestry groups. Analyses covered the period July 2014-November 2017. Genetic main effects and interaction effects were jointly assessed by means of a 2-degrees-of-freedom (df) test, and a 1-df test was used to assess the interaction effects alone. Variants at 495 loci were at least suggestively associated (P < 1 × 10-6) with lipid levels in stage 1 and were evaluated in stage 2, followed by combined analyses of stage 1 and stage 2. In the combined analysis of stages 1 and 2, a total of 147 independent loci were associated with lipid levels at P < 5 × 10-8 using 2-df tests, of which 18 were novel. No genome-wide-significant associations were found testing the interaction effect alone. The novel loci included several genes (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 5 (PCSK5), vascular endothelial growth factor B (VEGFB), and apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide 1 (APOBEC1) complementation factor (A1CF)) that have a putative role in lipid metabolism on the basis of existing evidence from cellular and experimental models.
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Affiliation(s)
- Paul S de Vries
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
| | - Amy R Bentley
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
| | - Yun J Sung
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
| | - Thomas W Winkler
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
| | - Ioanna Ntalla
- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Karen Schwander
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
| | - Aldi T Kraja
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
| | - Xiuqing Guo
- Genomic Outcomes, Pediatrics, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LA BioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California
| | - Nora Franceschini
- Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gilling School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
| | - Ching-Yu Cheng
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Academic Medicine Research Institute, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Xueling Sim
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Dina Vojinovic
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Jennifer E Huffman
- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - Solomon K Musani
- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
| | - Changwei Li
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia at Athens College of Public Health, Athens, Georgia
| | - Mary F Feitosa
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
| | - Melissa A Richard
- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
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- Internal Medicine, Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
- Centre de Bioinformatique, Biostatistique et Biologie Intégrative
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Biostatistics and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
| | - Lawrence F Bielak
- Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
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- Public Health Sciences, Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece
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- Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gilling School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program, Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine and MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - Fernando P Hartwig
- Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
| | - Meian He
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
| | | | - Fang-Chi Hsu
- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
| | - Anne U Jackson
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Brigitte Kühnel
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Federica Laguzzi
- Unit of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Joseph H Lee
- Sergievsky Center and Taub Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
| | - Jian'an Luan
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center – Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
| | - Nana Matoba
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan
| | - Ilja M Nolte
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Maik Pietzner
- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Robert A Scott
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Tamar Sofer
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Yajuan Wang
- Department of Population and Quantitative Health and Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
| | - Erin B Ware
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
| | - Wanqing Wen
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
| | - Lisa R Yanek
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program
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- Section of Cardiovascular Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Houston Methodist Debakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas
- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Section of Genomic Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Medicine and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Academic Medicine Research Institute, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program
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- Genomic Outcomes, Pediatrics, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LA BioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California
| | - John M Connell
- Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Unit of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka
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- Center on Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
| | - Anna F Dominiczak
- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Family Medicine and Epidemiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Jessica D Faul
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Terrence Forrester
- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
| | - Oscar H Franco
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
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- Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
| | - C Charles Gu
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
| | - Tamara B Harris
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
| | - Sami Heikkinen
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Finland
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- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Khoo Teck Puat – National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
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- Laboratory of Genome Technology, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Japan
| | - James E Hixson
- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas
| | - Barbara V Howard
- MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, Maryland
- Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences and Department of Medicine, Georgetown-Howard Universities, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
- Department of Geriatric and General Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Medicine and Abdominal Center, Endocrinology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington
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- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute
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- Sticht Center for Health Aging and Alzheimer's Prevention, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health and Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Biostatistics Section, Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, School of Medicine, West Complex, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Geriatrics, Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
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- General Medicine & Primary Care, Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Data Tecnica International, Glen Echo, Maryland
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- DZHK
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- Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
- Psychiatric Hospital “Sveti Ivan”, Zagreb, Croatia
- Gen-info Ltd, Zagreb, Croatia
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- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Genetic and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, California
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- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, School of Medicine, West Complex, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Institute for Maternal and Child Health – IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Oakland, California
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- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
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- Division of Population Health and Genomics, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, IBE, Faculty of Medicine, LMU, Munich, Germany
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Genomic Outcomes, Pediatrics, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LA BioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
- Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Internal Medicine, Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gilling School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Jackson Heart Study, School of Public Health, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Genomic Outcomes, Pediatrics, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LA BioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, UPMC Hillman Cancer, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Behavioral Epidemiology Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- NIHR Imperial College Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden
- OCDEM, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Nephrology, Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes
- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
- Institute for Maternal and Child Health – IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy
| | - Christian Gieger
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research
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- Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- NIHR Imperial College Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Unit of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center – Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom
| | - James Scott
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
| | - Ya Xing Wang
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Hugh Watkins
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- NIHR Imperial College Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Health Data Research UK
- UK Dementia Research Institute
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- Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gilling School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Carolina Center of Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Public Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Epidemiology, Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
- Kaiser Permanente Washington, Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington
| | - Paul M Ridker
- Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Rob M van Dam
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
| | - Xiaofeng Zhu
- Department of Population and Quantitative Health and Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
| | - Charles N Rotimi
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
- Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Leiden
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
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- Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
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- Cardiology, Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program
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- WHI CCC, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Genomic Outcomes, Pediatrics, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LA BioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California
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- Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
| | - Michael A Province
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
- NHLBI Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
| | - Alanna C Morrison
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
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Bentley AR, Sung YJ, Brown MR, Winkler TW, Kraja AT, Ntalla I, Schwander K, Chasman DI, Lim E, Deng X, Guo X, Liu J, Lu Y, Cheng CY, Sim X, Vojinovic D, Huffman JE, Musani SK, Li C, Feitosa MF, Richard MA, Noordam R, Baker J, Chen G, Aschard H, Bartz TM, Ding J, Dorajoo R, Manning AK, Rankinen T, Smith AV, Tajuddin SM, Zhao W, Graff M, Alver M, Boissel M, Chai JF, Chen X, Divers J, Evangelou E, Gao C, Goel A, Hagemeijer Y, Harris SE, Hartwig FP, He M, Horimoto ARVR, Hsu FC, Hung YJ, Jackson AU, Kasturiratne A, Komulainen P, Kühnel B, Leander K, Lin KH, Luan J, Lyytikäinen LP, Matoba N, Nolte IM, Pietzner M, Prins B, Riaz M, Robino A, Said MA, Schupf N, Scott RA, Sofer T, Stancáková A, Takeuchi F, Tayo BO, van der Most PJ, Varga TV, Wang TD, Wang Y, Ware EB, Wen W, Xiang YB, Yanek LR, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Adeyemo A, Afaq S, Amin N, Amini M, Arking DE, Arzumanyan Z, Aung T, Ballantyne C, Barr RG, Bielak LF, Boerwinkle E, Bottinger EP, Broeckel U, Brown M, Cade BE, Campbell A, Canouil M, Charumathi S, Chen YDI, Christensen K, Concas MP, Connell JM, de Las Fuentes L, de Silva HJ, de Vries PS, Doumatey A, Duan Q, Eaton CB, Eppinga RN, Faul JD, Floyd JS, Forouhi NG, Forrester T, Friedlander Y, Gandin I, Gao H, Ghanbari M, Gharib SA, Gigante B, Giulianini F, Grabe HJ, Gu CC, Harris TB, Heikkinen S, Heng CK, Hirata M, Hixson JE, Ikram MA, Jia Y, Joehanes R, Johnson C, Jonas JB, Justice AE, Katsuya T, Khor CC, Kilpeläinen TO, Koh WP, Kolcic I, Kooperberg C, Krieger JE, Kritchevsky SB, Kubo M, Kuusisto J, Lakka TA, Langefeld CD, Langenberg C, Launer LJ, Lehne B, Lewis CE, Li Y, Liang J, Lin S, Liu CT, Liu J, Liu K, Loh M, Lohman KK, Louie T, Luzzi A, Mägi R, Mahajan A, Manichaikul AW, McKenzie CA, Meitinger T, Metspalu A, Milaneschi Y, Milani L, Mohlke KL, Momozawa Y, Morris AP, Murray AD, Nalls MA, Nauck M, Nelson CP, North KE, O'Connell JR, Palmer ND, Papanicolau GJ, Pedersen NL, Peters A, Peyser PA, Polasek O, Poulter N, Raitakari OT, Reiner AP, Renström F, Rice TK, Rich SS, Robinson JG, Rose LM, Rosendaal FR, Rudan I, Schmidt CO, Schreiner PJ, Scott WR, Sever P, Shi Y, Sidney S, Sims M, Smith JA, Snieder H, Starr JM, Strauch K, Stringham HM, Tan NYQ, Tang H, Taylor KD, Teo YY, Tham YC, Tiemeier H, Turner ST, Uitterlinden AG, van Heemst D, Waldenberger M, Wang H, Wang L, Wang L, Wei WB, Williams CA, Wilson G, Wojczynski MK, Yao J, Young K, Yu C, Yuan JM, Zhou J, Zonderman AB, Becker DM, Boehnke M, Bowden DW, Chambers JC, Cooper RS, de Faire U, Deary IJ, Elliott P, Esko T, Farrall M, Franks PW, Freedman BI, Froguel P, Gasparini P, Gieger C, Horta BL, Juang JMJ, Kamatani Y, Kammerer CM, Kato N, Kooner JS, Laakso M, Laurie CC, Lee IT, Lehtimäki T, Magnusson PKE, Oldehinkel AJ, Penninx BWJH, Pereira AC, Rauramaa R, Redline S, Samani NJ, Scott J, Shu XO, van der Harst P, Wagenknecht LE, Wang JS, Wang YX, Wareham NJ, Watkins H, Weir DR, Wickremasinghe AR, Wu T, Zeggini E, Zheng W, Bouchard C, Evans MK, Gudnason V, Kardia SLR, Liu Y, Psaty BM, Ridker PM, van Dam RM, Mook-Kanamori DO, Fornage M, Province MA, Kelly TN, Fox ER, Hayward C, van Duijn CM, Tai ES, Wong TY, Loos RJF, Franceschini N, Rotter JI, Zhu X, Bierut LJ, Gauderman WJ, Rice K, Munroe PB, Morrison AC, Rao DC, Rotimi CN, Cupples LA. Multi-ancestry genome-wide gene-smoking interaction study of 387,272 individuals identifies new loci associated with serum lipids. Nat Genet 2019; 51:636-648. [PMID: 30926973 PMCID: PMC6467258 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-019-0378-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2018] [Accepted: 02/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/08/2022]
Abstract
The concentrations of high- and low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides are influenced by smoking, but it is unknown whether genetic associations with lipids may be modified by smoking. We conducted a multi-ancestry genome-wide gene-smoking interaction study in 133,805 individuals with follow-up in an additional 253,467 individuals. Combined meta-analyses identified 13 new loci associated with lipids, some of which were detected only because association differed by smoking status. Additionally, we demonstrate the importance of including diverse populations, particularly in studies of interactions with lifestyle factors, where genomic and lifestyle differences by ancestry may contribute to novel findings.
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Affiliation(s)
- Amy R Bentley
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Michael R Brown
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Thomas W Winkler
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
| | - Aldi T Kraja
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Ioanna Ntalla
- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
| | - Karen Schwander
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Daniel I Chasman
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Elise Lim
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Xuan Deng
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Xiuqing Guo
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Women's Health Initiative Clinical Coordinating Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Yingchang Lu
- Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
| | - Ching-Yu Cheng
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Academic Medicine Research Institute, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Xueling Sim
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Dina Vojinovic
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Jennifer E Huffman
- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Solomon K Musani
- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
| | - Changwei Li
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia at Athens College of Public Health, Athens, GA, USA
| | - Mary F Feitosa
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Melissa A Richard
- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Raymond Noordam
- Internal Medicine, Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | - Jenna Baker
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Guanjie Chen
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Hugues Aschard
- Centre de Bioinformatique, Biostatistique, et Biologie Intégrative (C3BI), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Traci M Bartz
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Jingzhong Ding
- Center on Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Rajkumar Dorajoo
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Alisa K Manning
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Tuomo Rankinen
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
| | - Albert V Smith
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Salman M Tajuddin
- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, US National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Wei Zhao
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Mariaelisa Graff
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | - Maris Alver
- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Mathilde Boissel
- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille, France
| | - Jin Fang Chai
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Xu Chen
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Jasmin Divers
- Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Evangelos Evangelou
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece
| | - Chuan Gao
- Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Anuj Goel
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Yanick Hagemeijer
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Sarah E Harris
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Fernando P Hartwig
- Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil
- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Meian He
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
| | - Andrea R V R Horimoto
- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - Fang-Chi Hsu
- Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Yi-Jen Hung
- Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
| | - Anne U Jackson
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | | | - Pirjo Komulainen
- Foundation for Research in Health, Exercise, and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Brigitte Kühnel
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Karin Leander
- Unit of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Keng-Hung Lin
- Ophthalmology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Jian'an Luan
- Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center-Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
| | - Nana Matoba
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
| | - Ilja M Nolte
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Maik Pietzner
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Bram Prins
- Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
| | - Muhammad Riaz
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
| | - Antonietta Robino
- Institute for Maternal and Child Health, IRCCS 'Burlo Garofolo', Trieste, Italy
| | - M Abdullah Said
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Nicole Schupf
- Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
| | - Robert A Scott
- Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Tamar Sofer
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Alena Stancáková
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Fumihiko Takeuchi
- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Bamidele O Tayo
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, USA
| | - Peter J van der Most
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Tibor V Varga
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Tzung-Dau Wang
- Cardiovascular Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
| | - Yajuan Wang
- Department of Population Quantitative and Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
| | - Erin B Ware
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Wanqing Wen
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Yong-Bing Xiang
- SKLORG and Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
| | - Lisa R Yanek
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Weihua Zhang
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
| | - Jing Hua Zhao
- Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Adebowale Adeyemo
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Saima Afaq
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK
| | - Najaf Amin
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Marzyeh Amini
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Dan E Arking
- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Zorayr Arzumanyan
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Tin Aung
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Christie Ballantyne
- Section of Cardiovascular Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Houston Methodist Debakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, TX, USA
| | - R Graham Barr
- Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
| | - Lawrence F Bielak
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Eric Boerwinkle
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Erwin P Bottinger
- Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
| | - Ulrich Broeckel
- Section of Genomic Pediatrics, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
| | - Morris Brown
- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
| | - Brian E Cade
- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Archie Campbell
- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Mickaël Canouil
- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille, France
| | - Sabanayagam Charumathi
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Academic Medicine Research Institute, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Yii-Der Ida Chen
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Kaare Christensen
- Danish Aging Research Center, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
| | - Maria Pina Concas
- Institute for Maternal and Child Health, IRCCS 'Burlo Garofolo', Trieste, Italy
| | - John M Connell
- Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
| | - Lisa de Las Fuentes
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - H Janaka de Silva
- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka
| | - Paul S de Vries
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Ayo Doumatey
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Qing Duan
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | - Charles B Eaton
- Department of Family Medicine and Epidemiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
| | - Ruben N Eppinga
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Jessica D Faul
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - James S Floyd
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Nita G Forouhi
- Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Terrence Forrester
- UWI Solutions for Developing Countries, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
| | - Yechiel Friedlander
- Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
| | - Ilaria Gandin
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - He Gao
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK
| | - Mohsen Ghanbari
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
| | - Sina A Gharib
- Computational Medicine Core, Center for Lung Biology, UW Medicine Sleep Center, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Bruna Gigante
- Unit of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Franco Giulianini
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Hans J Grabe
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - C Charles Gu
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Tamara B Harris
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Sami Heikkinen
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Chew-Kiat Heng
- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Makoto Hirata
- Laboratory of Genome Technology, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Japan
| | - James E Hixson
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
| | - M Arfan Ikram
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Yucheng Jia
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Roby Joehanes
- Hebrew SeniorLife, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Craig Johnson
- Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Jost Bruno Jonas
- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
| | - Anne E Justice
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | - Tomohiro Katsuya
- Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
- Department of Geriatric and General Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
| | - Chiea Chuen Khor
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Tuomas O Kilpeläinen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
| | - Woon-Puay Koh
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Ivana Kolcic
- Department of Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - Charles Kooperberg
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Jose E Krieger
- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - Stephen B Kritchevsky
- Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Prevention, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Michiaki Kubo
- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
| | - Johanna Kuusisto
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Timo A Lakka
- Foundation for Research in Health, Exercise, and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Carl D Langefeld
- Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Claudia Langenberg
- Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Lenore J Launer
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Benjamin Lehne
- Institute of Clinical Sciences, Department of Molecular Sciences, Imperial College, London, UK
| | - Cora E Lewis
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
| | - Yize Li
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Jingjing Liang
- Department of Population Quantitative and Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
| | - Shiow Lin
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Ching-Ti Liu
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Jianjun Liu
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Kiang Liu
- Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
| | - Marie Loh
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK
- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Kurt K Lohman
- Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Tin Louie
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Anna Luzzi
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Reedik Mägi
- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Anubha Mahajan
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Ani W Manichaikul
- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
| | - Colin A McKenzie
- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Caribbean Institute for Health Research, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
| | - Thomas Meitinger
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - Andres Metspalu
- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Yuri Milaneschi
- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Lili Milani
- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Karen L Mohlke
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | - Yukihide Momozawa
- Laboratory for Genotyping Development, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
| | - Andrew P Morris
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
| | - Alison D Murray
- Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
| | - Mike A Nalls
- Data Tecnica International, Glen Echo, MD, USA
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Matthias Nauck
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Christopher P Nelson
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
| | - Kari E North
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | - Jeffrey R O'Connell
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | | | - George J Papanicolau
- Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Nancy L Pedersen
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Annette Peters
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
| | - Patricia A Peyser
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Ozren Polasek
- Department of Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
- Psychiatric Hospital 'Sveti Ivan', Zagreb, Croatia
- Gen-info, Ltd, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - Neil Poulter
- School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK
| | - Olli T Raitakari
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
| | - Alex P Reiner
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Frida Renström
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Biobank Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Treva K Rice
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Stephen S Rich
- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
| | - Jennifer G Robinson
- Department of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
| | - Lynda M Rose
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Frits R Rosendaal
- Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | - Igor Rudan
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Carsten O Schmidt
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Pamela J Schreiner
- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
| | - William R Scott
- Institute of Clinical Sciences, Department of Molecular Sciences, Imperial College, London, UK
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK
| | - Peter Sever
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK
| | - Yuan Shi
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Stephen Sidney
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
| | - Mario Sims
- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
| | - Jennifer A Smith
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Harold Snieder
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - John M Starr
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Konstantin Strauch
- Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Heather M Stringham
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Nicholas Y Q Tan
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Hua Tang
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Kent D Taylor
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Yik Ying Teo
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Yih Chung Tham
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Henning Tiemeier
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Stephen T Turner
- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Internal Medicine, Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Heming Wang
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Lan Wang
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Lihua Wang
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Wen Bin Wei
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
| | - Christine A Williams
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Jackson Heart Study, School of Public Health, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA
| | - Mary K Wojczynski
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Jie Yao
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Kristin Young
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | - Caizheng Yu
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, UPMC Hillman Cancer, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
| | - Jie Zhou
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Alan B Zonderman
- Behavioral Epidemiology Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, US National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, USA
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- Unit of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK
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- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- OCDEM, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Nephrology, Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille, France
- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College, London, UK
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- Institute for Maternal and Child Health, IRCCS 'Burlo Garofolo', Trieste, Italy
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
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- Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil
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- National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
| | - Yoichiro Kamatani
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - I-Te Lee
- Endocrinology and Metabolism, Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center-Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Psychiatry, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Foundation for Research in Health, Exercise, and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
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- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Nilesh J Samani
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Jun-Sing Wang
- Endocrinology and Metabolism, Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
| | - Ya Xing Wang
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
| | - Nicholas J Wareham
- Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Hugh Watkins
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - David R Weir
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Institute of Translational Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Wei Zheng
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Claude Bouchard
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
| | - Michele K Evans
- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, US National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Vilmundur Gudnason
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Sharon L R Kardia
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Yongmei Liu
- Public Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Bruce M Psaty
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Paul M Ridker
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Rob M van Dam
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Dennis O Mook-Kanamori
- Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | - Myriam Fornage
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Michael A Province
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Tanika N Kelly
- Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
| | - Ervin R Fox
- Cardiology, Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
| | - Caroline Hayward
- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Cornelia M van Duijn
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
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- Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Mindich Child Health Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | - Jerome I Rotter
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Xiaofeng Zhu
- Department of Population Quantitative and Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
| | - Laura J Bierut
- Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - W James Gauderman
- Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Kenneth Rice
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Patricia B Munroe
- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
| | - Alanna C Morrison
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Dabeeru C Rao
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Charles N Rotimi
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
- Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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Ligthart S, Vaez A, Võsa U, Stathopoulou MG, de Vries PS, Prins BP, Van der Most PJ, Tanaka T, Naderi E, Rose LM, Wu Y, Karlsson R, Barbalic M, Lin H, Pool R, Zhu G, Macé A, Sidore C, Trompet S, Mangino M, Sabater-Lleal M, Kemp JP, Abbasi A, Kacprowski T, Verweij N, Smith AV, Huang T, Marzi C, Feitosa MF, Lohman KK, Kleber ME, Milaneschi Y, Mueller C, Huq M, Vlachopoulou E, Lyytikäinen LP, Oldmeadow C, Deelen J, Perola M, Zhao JH, Feenstra B, Amini M, Lahti J, Schraut KE, Fornage M, Suktitipat B, Chen WM, Li X, Nutile T, Malerba G, Luan J, Bak T, Schork N, Del Greco M F, Thiering E, Mahajan A, Marioni RE, Mihailov E, Eriksson J, Ozel AB, Zhang W, Nethander M, Cheng YC, Aslibekyan S, Ang W, Gandin I, Yengo L, Portas L, Kooperberg C, Hofer E, Rajan KB, Schurmann C, den Hollander W, Ahluwalia TS, Zhao J, Draisma HHM, Ford I, Timpson N, Teumer A, Huang H, Wahl S, Liu Y, Huang J, Uh HW, Geller F, Joshi PK, Yanek LR, Trabetti E, Lehne B, Vozzi D, Verbanck M, Biino G, Saba Y, Meulenbelt I, O'Connell JR, Laakso M, Giulianini F, Magnusson PKE, Ballantyne CM, Hottenga JJ, Montgomery GW, Rivadineira F, Rueedi R, Steri M, Herzig KH, Stott DJ, Menni C, Frånberg M, St Pourcain B, Felix SB, Pers TH, Bakker SJL, Kraft P, Peters A, Vaidya D, Delgado G, Smit JH, Großmann V, Sinisalo J, Seppälä I, Williams SR, Holliday EG, Moed M, Langenberg C, Räikkönen K, Ding J, Campbell H, Sale MM, Chen YDI, James AL, Ruggiero D, Soranzo N, Hartman CA, Smith EN, Berenson GS, Fuchsberger C, Hernandez D, Tiesler CMT, Giedraitis V, Liewald D, Fischer K, Mellström D, Larsson A, Wang Y, Scott WR, Lorentzon M, Beilby J, Ryan KA, Pennell CE, Vuckovic D, Balkau B, Concas MP, Schmidt R, Mendes de Leon CF, Bottinger EP, Kloppenburg M, Paternoster L, Boehnke M, Musk AW, Willemsen G, Evans DM, Madden PAF, Kähönen M, Kutalik Z, Zoledziewska M, Karhunen V, Kritchevsky SB, Sattar N, Lachance G, Clarke R, Harris TB, Raitakari OT, Attia JR, van Heemst D, Kajantie E, Sorice R, Gambaro G, Scott RA, Hicks AA, Ferrucci L, Standl M, Lindgren CM, Starr JM, Karlsson M, Lind L, Li JZ, Chambers JC, Mori TA, de Geus EJCN, Heath AC, Martin NG, Auvinen J, Buckley BM, de Craen AJM, Waldenberger M, Strauch K, Meitinger T, Scott RJ, McEvoy M, Beekman M, Bombieri C, Ridker PM, Mohlke KL, Pedersen NL, Morrison AC, Boomsma DI, Whitfield JB, Strachan DP, Hofman A, Vollenweider P, Cucca F, Jarvelin MR, Jukema JW, Spector TD, Hamsten A, Zeller T, Uitterlinden AG, Nauck M, Gudnason V, Qi L, Grallert H, Borecki IB, Rotter JI, März W, Wild PS, Lokki ML, Boyle M, Salomaa V, Melbye M, Eriksson JG, Wilson JF, Penninx BWJH, Becker DM, Worrall BB, Gibson G, Krauss RM, Ciullo M, Zaza G, Wareham NJ, Oldehinkel AJ, Palmer LJ, Murray SS, Pramstaller PP, Bandinelli S, Heinrich J, Ingelsson E, Deary IJ, Mägi R, Vandenput L, van der Harst P, Desch KC, Kooner JS, Ohlsson C, Hayward C, Lehtimäki T, Shuldiner AR, Arnett DK, Beilin LJ, Robino A, Froguel P, Pirastu M, Jess T, Koenig W, Loos RJF, Evans DA, Schmidt H, Smith GD, Slagboom PE, Eiriksdottir G, Morris AP, Psaty BM, Tracy RP, Nolte IM, Boerwinkle E, Visvikis-Siest S, Reiner AP, Gross M, Bis JC, Franke L, Franco OH, Benjamin EJ, Chasman DI, Dupuis J, Snieder H, Dehghan A, Alizadeh BZ. Genome Analyses of >200,000 Individuals Identify 58 Loci for Chronic Inflammation and Highlight Pathways that Link Inflammation and Complex Disorders. Am J Hum Genet 2018; 103:691-706. [PMID: 30388399 PMCID: PMC6218410 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 250] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2018] [Accepted: 09/20/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
C-reactive protein (CRP) is a sensitive biomarker of chronic low-grade inflammation and is associated with multiple complex diseases. The genetic determinants of chronic inflammation remain largely unknown, and the causal role of CRP in several clinical outcomes is debated. We performed two genome-wide association studies (GWASs), on HapMap and 1000 Genomes imputed data, of circulating amounts of CRP by using data from 88 studies comprising 204,402 European individuals. Additionally, we performed in silico functional analyses and Mendelian randomization analyses with several clinical outcomes. The GWAS meta-analyses of CRP revealed 58 distinct genetic loci (p < 5 × 10-8). After adjustment for body mass index in the regression analysis, the associations at all except three loci remained. The lead variants at the distinct loci explained up to 7.0% of the variance in circulating amounts of CRP. We identified 66 gene sets that were organized in two substantially correlated clusters, one mainly composed of immune pathways and the other characterized by metabolic pathways in the liver. Mendelian randomization analyses revealed a causal protective effect of CRP on schizophrenia and a risk-increasing effect on bipolar disorder. Our findings provide further insights into the biology of inflammation and could lead to interventions for treating inflammation and its clinical consequences.
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Affiliation(s)
- Symen Ligthart
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
| | - Ahmad Vaez
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands; Department of Bioinformatics, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan 81746-73461, Iran
| | - Urmo Võsa
- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands; Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
| | | | - Paul S de Vries
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands; Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Bram P Prins
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Peter J Van der Most
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
| | - Toshiko Tanaka
- Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
| | - Elnaz Naderi
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands; Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713 GZ, the Netherlands
| | - Lynda M Rose
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA
| | - Ying Wu
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
| | - Robert Karlsson
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden
| | - Maja Barbalic
- University of Split School of Medicine, Split 21000, Croatia
| | - Honghuang Lin
- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
| | - René Pool
- Department of Biological Psychology, Netherlands Twin Register, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 1081 BT, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Public Health research institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam 1081 BT, the Netherlands
| | - Gu Zhu
- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
| | - Aurélien Macé
- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne 1010, Switzerland; Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland; Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne 1010, Switzerland
| | - Carlo Sidore
- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Sardinia 08045, Italy
| | - Stella Trompet
- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, the Netherlands; Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZA, the Netherlands
| | - Massimo Mangino
- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St. Thomas' Foundation Trust, London SE1 9RT, UK
| | - Maria Sabater-Lleal
- Unit of Genomics of Complex Diseases, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau, Barcelona 08025, Spain; Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17176, Sweden
| | - John P Kemp
- University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4102, Australia; MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
| | - Ali Abbasi
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713 GZ, the Netherlands; MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Tim Kacprowski
- Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine and Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany; German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
| | - Niek Verweij
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen 9713 AV, the Netherlands
| | - Albert V Smith
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur 201, Iceland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik 101, Iceland
| | - Tao Huang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China; Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
| | - Carola Marzi
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research, Partner Site Munich, Munich 85764, Germany
| | - Mary F Feitosa
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108-2212, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
| | - Marcus E Kleber
- Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim 68167, Germany
| | - Yuri Milaneschi
- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Center/GGZ inGeest Research & Innovation, Amsterdam 1081 HJ, the Netherlands
| | - Christian Mueller
- Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg 20246, Germany; Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck, Lübeck 23562, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site RhineMain, 55131 Mainz, Germany
| | - Mahmudul Huq
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
| | - Efthymia Vlachopoulou
- Transplantation Laboratory, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
| | - Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere 33014, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere 33520, Finland
| | - Christopher Oldmeadow
- Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambon Heights, NSW 2305, Australia; Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
| | - Joris Deelen
- Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZC, the Netherlands; Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne 50931, Germany
| | - Markus Perola
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland
| | - Jing Hua Zhao
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Bjarke Feenstra
- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen 2300, Denmark
| | - Marzyeh Amini
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
| | - Jari Lahti
- Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland; Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland; Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki 00250, Finland
| | - Katharina E Schraut
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH16 4UX, UK
| | - Myriam Fornage
- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health and Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Bhoom Suktitipat
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand
| | - Wei-Min Chen
- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
| | - Xiaohui Li
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
| | - Teresa Nutile
- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "A. Buzzati-Traverso," Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Napoli 80131, Italy
| | - Giovanni Malerba
- Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona 37134, Italy
| | - Jian'an Luan
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Tom Bak
- Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
| | - Nicholas Schork
- Human Biology, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Quantitative Medicine, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA
| | - Fabiola Del Greco M
- Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Bolzano 39100, Italy
| | - Elisabeth Thiering
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Munich 80337, Germany
| | - Anubha Mahajan
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
| | - Riccardo E Marioni
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK; Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
| | - Evelin Mihailov
- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
| | - Joel Eriksson
- Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg 41345, Sweden
| | - Ayse Bilge Ozel
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5618, USA
| | - Weihua Zhang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex UB1 3HW, UK
| | - Maria Nethander
- Bioinformatics Core Facility, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg 413 90, Sweden
| | - Yu-Ching Cheng
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
| | - Stella Aslibekyan
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-0022, USA
| | - Wei Ang
- Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
| | | | - Loïc Yengo
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 8199, University of Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, FR 3508, 59000 Lille, France; Program in Complex Trait Genomics, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
| | - Laura Portas
- Support OU, Institute of Genetic and Biomedic Research, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Sassari 7100, Italy
| | - Charles Kooperberg
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Public Health Sciences Division, Mail Stop M3-A410, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Edith Hofer
- Clinical Division of Neurogeriatrics, Department of Neurology, Medical University Graz, Graz 8036, Austria; Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University Graz, Graz 8036, Austria
| | - Kumar B Rajan
- Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
| | - Claudia Schurmann
- Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
| | - Wouter den Hollander
- Department of Medical Statistics and Bio-informatics, Section Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZC, the Netherlands
| | - Tarunveer S Ahluwalia
- Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Gentofte 2820, Denmark; Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
| | - Jing Zhao
- Center for Integrative Genomics, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
| | - Harmen H M Draisma
- Department of Biological Psychology, Netherlands Twin Register, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 1081 BT, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Public Health research institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam 1081 BT, the Netherlands; Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1081 HV, the Netherlands
| | - Ian Ford
- Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
| | - Nicholas Timpson
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
| | - Alexander Teumer
- Department SHIP-KEF, Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
| | - Hongyan Huang
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
| | - Simone Wahl
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research, Partner Site Munich, Munich 85764, Germany
| | - YongMei Liu
- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
| | - Jie Huang
- Boston VA Research Institute, Inc., Boston, MA 02130, USA
| | - Hae-Won Uh
- Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZC, the Netherlands
| | - Frank Geller
- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen 2300, Denmark
| | - Peter K Joshi
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH16 4UX, UK
| | - Lisa R Yanek
- GeneSTAR Research Center, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
| | - Elisabetta Trabetti
- Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona 37134, Italy
| | - Benjamin Lehne
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK
| | - Diego Vozzi
- Institute for Maternal and Child Health, IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo," Trieste 34140, Italy
| | - Marie Verbanck
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 8199, University of Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, FR 3508, 59000 Lille, France
| | - Ginevra Biino
- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pavia 27100, Italy
| | - Yasaman Saba
- Gottfried Schatz Research Center, Institute for Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, 8010 Graz, Austria
| | - Ingrid Meulenbelt
- Department of Medical Statistics and Bio-informatics, Section Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZC, the Netherlands
| | - Jeff R O'Connell
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
| | - Markku Laakso
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio 70210, Finland
| | - Franco Giulianini
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA
| | - Patrik K E Magnusson
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden
| | - Christie M Ballantyne
- Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Jouke Jan Hottenga
- Department of Biological Psychology, Netherlands Twin Register, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 1081 BT, the Netherlands
| | - Grant W Montgomery
- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
| | - Fernando Rivadineira
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3015 CN, the Netherlands
| | - Rico Rueedi
- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne 1010, Switzerland; Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland
| | - Maristella Steri
- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Sardinia 08045, Italy
| | - Karl-Heinz Herzig
- Department of Physiology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Oulu, Medical Research Center Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu 90014, Finland; Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu 90220, Finland; Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan 60-512, Poland
| | - David J Stott
- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
| | - Cristina Menni
- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
| | - Mattias Frånberg
- Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17176, Sweden; Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, Stockholm University, Stockholm 100 44, Sweden
| | - Beate St Pourcain
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK; Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen 6525 XD, the Netherlands
| | - Stephan B Felix
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany; Department for Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
| | - Tune H Pers
- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen 2300, Denmark; Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
| | - Stephan J L Bakker
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713 GZ, the Netherlands
| | - Peter Kraft
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
| | - Annette Peters
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherber 85764, Germany
| | - Dhananjay Vaidya
- GeneSTAR Research Center, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
| | - Graciela Delgado
- Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim 68167, Germany
| | - Johannes H Smit
- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Center/GGZ inGeest Research & Innovation, Amsterdam 1081 HJ, the Netherlands
| | - Vera Großmann
- Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz 55131, Germany
| | - Juha Sinisalo
- Heart and Lung Center, Helsinki University Hospital and Helsinki University, Helsinki 00029, Finland
| | - Ilkka Seppälä
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere 33014, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere 33520, Finland
| | - Stephen R Williams
- Department of Neurology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
| | - Elizabeth G Holliday
- Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambon Heights, NSW 2305, Australia; Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
| | - Matthijs Moed
- Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZC, the Netherlands
| | - Claudia Langenberg
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Katri Räikkönen
- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
| | - Jingzhong Ding
- Department of Internal Medicine/Geriatrics, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
| | - Harry Campbell
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH16 4UX, UK
| | - Michele M Sale
- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
| | - Yii-Der I Chen
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
| | - Alan L James
- Busselton Population Medical Research Institute, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia; Department of Pulmonary Physiology and Sleep Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia
| | - Daniela Ruggiero
- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "A. Buzzati-Traverso," Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Napoli 80131, Italy; IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS) 86077, Italy
| | - Nicole Soranzo
- Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Catharina A Hartman
- Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
| | - Erin N Smith
- Department of Pediatrics and Rady Children's Hospital, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
| | - Gerald S Berenson
- Center for Cardiovascular Health, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
| | - Christian Fuchsberger
- Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Bolzano 39100, Italy
| | - Dena Hernandez
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
| | - Carla M T Tiesler
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Munich 80337, Germany
| | - Vilmantas Giedraitis
- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Molecular Geriatrics, Uppsala University, Uppsala 752 37, Sweden
| | - David Liewald
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
| | - Krista Fischer
- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
| | - Dan Mellström
- Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg 41345, Sweden
| | - Anders Larsson
- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala 751 41, Sweden
| | - Yunmei Wang
- Department of Medicine, Case Cardiovascular Research Institute, Case Western Reserve University, Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
| | - William R Scott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK
| | - Matthias Lorentzon
- Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg 41345, Sweden; Geriatric Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal 431 80, Sweden
| | - John Beilby
- PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia; School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
| | - Kathleen A Ryan
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
| | - Craig E Pennell
- Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
| | - Dragana Vuckovic
- Medical Sciences, Surgical and Health Department, University of Trieste, Trieste 34137, Italy
| | - Beverly Balkau
- INSERM U1018, Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Santé des Populations, Team 5 (EpReC, Renal, and Cardiovascular Epidemiology), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif 94807, France
| | - Maria Pina Concas
- Institute for Maternal and Child Health, IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo," Trieste 34140, Italy
| | - Reinhold Schmidt
- Clinical Division of Neurogeriatrics, Department of Neurology, Medical University Graz, Graz 8036, Austria
| | - Carlos F Mendes de Leon
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
| | - Erwin P Bottinger
- Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
| | - Margreet Kloppenburg
- Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, the Netherlands; Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZC, the Netherlands
| | - Lavinia Paternoster
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
| | - Michael Boehnke
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
| | - A W Musk
- Busselton Population Medical Research Institute, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia
| | - Gonneke Willemsen
- Department of Biological Psychology, Netherlands Twin Register, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 1081 BT, the Netherlands
| | - David M Evans
- University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4102, Australia; MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
| | - Pamela A F Madden
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4560 Clayton Ave., Suite 1000, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
| | - Mika Kähönen
- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere 33520, Finland; Department of Clinical Physiology, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere 33520, Finland
| | - Zoltán Kutalik
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland; Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne 1010, Switzerland
| | - Magdalena Zoledziewska
- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Sardinia 08045, Italy
| | - Ville Karhunen
- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, 90014 Oulun yliopisto, Finland
| | - Stephen B Kritchevsky
- Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Sticht Center on Aging and Rehabilitation, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
| | - Naveed Sattar
- BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK
| | - Genevieve Lachance
- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
| | - Robert Clarke
- Clinical Trial Service Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
| | - Tamara B Harris
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
| | - Olli T Raitakari
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku 20520, Finland; Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku 20520, Finland
| | - John R Attia
- Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambon Heights, NSW 2305, Australia; Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia; John Hunter Hospital, New Lambton Heights, NWS 2305, Australia
| | - Diana van Heemst
- Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZA, the Netherlands
| | - Eero Kajantie
- Chronic Disease Prevention Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00014, Finland; Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00290, Finland; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, MRC Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu 90014, Finland
| | - Rossella Sorice
- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "A. Buzzati-Traverso," Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Napoli 80131, Italy
| | - Giovanni Gambaro
- Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Columbus-Gemelli University Hospital, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma 168, Italy
| | - Robert A Scott
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Andrew A Hicks
- Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Bolzano 39100, Italy
| | - Luigi Ferrucci
- Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
| | - Marie Standl
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
| | - Cecilia M Lindgren
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK; Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7FZ, UK; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
| | - John M Starr
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK; Alzheimer's Scotland Dementia Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
| | - Magnus Karlsson
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Orthopaedic Surgery, Lund University, Malmo 20502, Sweden
| | - Lars Lind
- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala 751 41, Sweden
| | - Jun Z Li
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5618, USA
| | - John C Chambers
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex UB1 3HW, UK; Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W12 0HS, UK; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 308232, Singapore; MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK
| | - Trevor A Mori
- Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
| | - Eco J C N de Geus
- Department of Biological Psychology, Netherlands Twin Register, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 1081 BT, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Public Health research institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam 1081 BT, the Netherlands
| | - Andrew C Heath
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4560 Clayton Ave., Suite 1000, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
| | - Nicholas G Martin
- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
| | - Juha Auvinen
- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, 90014 Oulun yliopisto, Finland; Unit of Primary Health Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu 90220, Finland
| | - Brendan M Buckley
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College Cork, Cork T12 K8AF, Ireland
| | - Anton J M de Craen
- Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZA, the Netherlands
| | - Melanie Waldenberger
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, 80636 Munich, Germany
| | - Konstantin Strauch
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; Genetic Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
| | - Thomas Meitinger
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich 85764, Germany; Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich 81377, Germany
| | - Rodney J Scott
- Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambon Heights, NSW 2305, Australia; Information-Based Medicine Stream, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, NSW 2305, Australia
| | - Mark McEvoy
- Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambon Heights, NSW 2305, Australia; Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
| | - Marian Beekman
- Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZC, the Netherlands
| | - Cristina Bombieri
- Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona 37134, Italy
| | - Paul M Ridker
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
| | - Karen L Mohlke
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
| | - Nancy L Pedersen
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden
| | - Alanna C Morrison
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Dorret I Boomsma
- Department of Biological Psychology, Netherlands Twin Register, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 1081 BT, the Netherlands
| | - John B Whitfield
- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
| | - David P Strachan
- Population Health Research Institute, St. George's, University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK
| | - Albert Hofman
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
| | - Peter Vollenweider
- Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne 1011, Switzerland
| | - Francesco Cucca
- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Sardinia 08045, Italy
| | - Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu 90220, Finland; Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, 90014 Oulun yliopisto, Finland; Unit of Primary Health Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu 90220, Finland; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Department of Life Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK
| | - J Wouter Jukema
- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, the Netherlands; Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, Amsterdam 3501 DG, the Netherlands; Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands, Utrecht 3511 EP, the Netherlands
| | - Tim D Spector
- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
| | - Anders Hamsten
- Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17176, Sweden
| | - Tanja Zeller
- Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg 20246, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site RhineMain, 55131 Mainz, Germany
| | - André G Uitterlinden
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands; Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3015 CN, the Netherlands
| | - Matthias Nauck
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany; Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
| | - Vilmundur Gudnason
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur 201, Iceland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik 101, Iceland
| | - Lu Qi
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
| | - Harald Grallert
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research, Partner Site Munich, Munich 85764, Germany
| | - Ingrid B Borecki
- Analytical Genetics Group, Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
| | - Jerome I Rotter
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
| | - Winfried März
- Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim 68167, Germany; Synlab Academy, Synlab Holding Deutschland GmbH, Mannheim 68161, Germany; Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz 8036, Austria
| | - Philipp S Wild
- German Center for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site RhineMain, 55131 Mainz, Germany; Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz 55131, Germany; Preventive Cardiology and Preventive Medicine, Center for Cardiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz 55131, Germany
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- Transplantation Laboratory, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- John Hunter Hospital, New Lambton Heights, NWS 2305, Australia
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen 2300, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2300, Denmark; Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland; Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki 00250, Finland; Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH16 4UX, UK; MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Center/GGZ inGeest Research & Innovation, Amsterdam 1081 HJ, the Netherlands
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- GeneSTAR Research Center, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Departments of Neurology and Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0394, USA
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- Center for Integrative Genomics, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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- Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA 94609, USA
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- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "A. Buzzati-Traverso," Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Napoli 80131, Italy; IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS) 86077, Italy
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- Renal Unit, Department of Medicine, Verona University Hospital, Verona 37126, Italy
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
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- School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
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- Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Bolzano 39100, Italy; General Central Hospital, Department of Neurology, Bolzano 39100, Italy; Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck 23538, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; Institute and Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich, Member DZL, German Center for Lung Research, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala 751 41, Sweden; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK; Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg 41345, Sweden
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen 9713 AV, the Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex UB1 3HW, UK; Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W12 0HS, UK; MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg 41345, Sweden
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere 33014, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere 33520, Finland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- University of Kentucky, College of Public Health, Lexington, KY 40508, USA
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- Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
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- Institute for Maternal and Child Health, IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo," Trieste 34140, Italy
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 8199, University of Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, FR 3508, 59000 Lille, France; Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Support OU, Institute of Genetic and Biomedic Research, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Sassari 7100, Italy
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- Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg 2200, Denmark
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- German Center for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, 80636 Munich, Germany; Department of Internal Medicine II-Cardiology, University of Ulm Medical Center, 80801 Ulm, Germany; Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, 80636 Munich, Germany
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- Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029-6542, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University Graz, Graz 8010, Austria; Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz 8010, Austria
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZC, the Netherlands
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK; Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GL, UK
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7660, USA; Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Vermont, Colchester, VT 05405, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands; Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01702, USA
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01702, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK.
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands.
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Feitosa MF, Kraja AT, Chasman DI, Sung YJ, Winkler TW, Ntalla I, Guo X, Franceschini N, Cheng CY, Sim X, Vojinovic D, Marten J, Musani SK, Li C, Bentley AR, Brown MR, Schwander K, Richard MA, Noordam R, Aschard H, Bartz TM, Bielak LF, Dorajoo R, Fisher V, Hartwig FP, Horimoto ARVR, Lohman KK, Manning AK, Rankinen T, Smith AV, Tajuddin SM, Wojczynski MK, Alver M, Boissel M, Cai Q, Campbell A, Chai JF, Chen X, Divers J, Gao C, Goel A, Hagemeijer Y, Harris SE, He M, Hsu FC, Jackson AU, Kähönen M, Kasturiratne A, Komulainen P, Kühnel B, Laguzzi F, Luan J, Matoba N, Nolte IM, Padmanabhan S, Riaz M, Rueedi R, Robino A, Said MA, Scott RA, Sofer T, Stančáková A, Takeuchi F, Tayo BO, van der Most PJ, Varga TV, Vitart V, Wang Y, Ware EB, Warren HR, Weiss S, Wen W, Yanek LR, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Afaq S, Amin N, Amini M, Arking DE, Aung T, Boerwinkle E, Borecki I, Broeckel U, Brown M, Brumat M, Burke GL, Canouil M, Chakravarti A, Charumathi S, Ida Chen YD, Connell JM, Correa A, de las Fuentes L, de Mutsert R, de Silva HJ, Deng X, Ding J, Duan Q, Eaton CB, Ehret G, Eppinga RN, Evangelou E, Faul JD, Felix SB, Forouhi NG, Forrester T, Franco OH, Friedlander Y, Gandin I, Gao H, Ghanbari M, Gigante B, Gu CC, Gu D, Hagenaars SP, Hallmans G, Harris TB, He J, Heikkinen S, Heng CK, Hirata M, Howard BV, Ikram MA, John U, Katsuya T, Khor CC, Kilpeläinen TO, Koh WP, Krieger JE, Kritchevsky SB, Kubo M, Kuusisto J, Lakka TA, Langefeld CD, Langenberg C, Launer LJ, Lehne B, Lewis CE, Li Y, Lin S, Liu J, Liu J, Loh M, Louie T, Mägi R, McKenzie CA, Meitinger T, Metspalu A, Milaneschi Y, Milani L, Mohlke KL, Momozawa Y, Nalls MA, Nelson CP, Sotoodehnia N, Norris JM, O'Connell JR, Palmer ND, Perls T, Pedersen NL, Peters A, Peyser PA, Poulter N, Raffel LJ, Raitakari OT, Roll K, Rose LM, Rosendaal FR, Rotter JI, Schmidt CO, Schreiner PJ, Schupf N, Scott WR, Sever PS, Shi Y, Sidney S, Sims M, Sitlani CM, Smith JA, Snieder H, Starr JM, Strauch K, Stringham HM, Tan NYQ, Tang H, Taylor KD, Teo YY, Tham YC, Turner ST, Uitterlinden AG, Vollenweider P, Waldenberger M, Wang L, Wang YX, Wei WB, Williams C, Yao J, Yu C, Yuan JM, Zhao W, Zonderman AB, Becker DM, Boehnke M, Bowden DW, Chambers JC, Deary IJ, Esko T, Farrall M, Franks PW, Freedman BI, Froguel P, Gasparini P, Gieger C, Jonas JB, Kamatani Y, Kato N, Kooner JS, Kutalik Z, Laakso M, Laurie CC, Leander K, Lehtimäki T, Study LC, Magnusson PKE, Oldehinkel AJ, Penninx BWJH, Polasek O, Porteous DJ, Rauramaa R, Samani NJ, Scott J, Shu XO, van der Harst P, Wagenknecht LE, Wareham NJ, Watkins H, Weir DR, Wickremasinghe AR, Wu T, Zheng W, Bouchard C, Christensen K, Evans MK, Gudnason V, Horta BL, Kardia SLR, Liu Y, Pereira AC, Psaty BM, Ridker PM, van Dam RM, Gauderman WJ, Zhu X, Mook-Kanamori DO, Fornage M, Rotimi CN, Cupples LA, Kelly TN, Fox ER, Hayward C, van Duijn CM, Tai ES, Wong TY, Kooperberg C, Palmas W, Rice K, Morrison AC, Elliott P, Caulfield MJ, Munroe PB, Rao DC, Province MA, Levy D. Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0198166. [PMID: 29912962 PMCID: PMC6005576 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 05/15/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Heavy alcohol consumption is an established risk factor for hypertension; the mechanism by which alcohol consumption impact blood pressure (BP) regulation remains unknown. We hypothesized that a genome-wide association study accounting for gene-alcohol consumption interaction for BP might identify additional BP loci and contribute to the understanding of alcohol-related BP regulation. We conducted a large two-stage investigation incorporating joint testing of main genetic effects and single nucleotide variant (SNV)-alcohol consumption interactions. In Stage 1, genome-wide discovery meta-analyses in ≈131K individuals across several ancestry groups yielded 3,514 SNVs (245 loci) with suggestive evidence of association (P < 1.0 x 10-5). In Stage 2, these SNVs were tested for independent external replication in ≈440K individuals across multiple ancestries. We identified and replicated (at Bonferroni correction threshold) five novel BP loci (380 SNVs in 21 genes) and 49 previously reported BP loci (2,159 SNVs in 109 genes) in European ancestry, and in multi-ancestry meta-analyses (P < 5.0 x 10-8). For African ancestry samples, we detected 18 potentially novel BP loci (P < 5.0 x 10-8) in Stage 1 that warrant further replication. Additionally, correlated meta-analysis identified eight novel BP loci (11 genes). Several genes in these loci (e.g., PINX1, GATA4, BLK, FTO and GABBR2) have been previously reported to be associated with alcohol consumption. These findings provide insights into the role of alcohol consumption in the genetic architecture of hypertension.
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- Mary F. Feitosa
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
| | - Ioanna Ntalla
- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Xiuqing Guo
- Genomic Outcomes, Pediatrics, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
| | - Nora Franceschini
- Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gilling School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Ching-Yu Cheng
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
| | - Changwei Li
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia at Athens College of Public Health, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Internal Medicine, Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Centre de Bioinformatique, Biostatistique et Biologie Intégrative (C3BI), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Biostatistics and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
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- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille, France
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Chuan Gao
- Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine and MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Anne U. Jackson
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
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- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Unit of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Nana Matoba
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Instititute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute for Maternal and Child Health—IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo", Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Queen Mary University of London, London, London, United Kingdom
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional genomics, University Medicine Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifsald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
| | - Lisa R. Yanek
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Section of Genomic Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Medicine and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Queen Mary University of London, London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Marco Brumat
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - Gregory L. Burke
- Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Mickaël Canouil
- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille, France
| | - Aravinda Chakravarti
- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Sabanayagam Charumathi
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Yii-Der Ida Chen
- Genomic Outcomes, Pediatrics, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
| | - John M. Connell
- Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
| | - Adolfo Correa
- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
| | - Lisa de las Fuentes
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
| | - Renée de Mutsert
- Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - H. Janaka de Silva
- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka
| | - Xuan Deng
- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Jingzhong Ding
- Center on Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Qing Duan
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Charles B. Eaton
- Department of Family Medicine and Epidemiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
| | - Georg Ehret
- Cardiology, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Ruben N. Eppinga
- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Evangelos Evangelou
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece
| | - Jessica D. Faul
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Stephan B. Felix
- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Nita G. Forouhi
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Terrence Forrester
- The Caribbean Institute for Health Research (CAIHR), University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
| | - Oscar H. Franco
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Yechiel Friedlander
- Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
| | - Ilaria Gandin
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - He Gao
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Mohsen Ghanbari
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
| | - Bruna Gigante
- Unit of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - C. Charles Gu
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
| | - Dongfeng Gu
- Department of Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center of Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
| | - Saskia P. Hagenaars
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - Göran Hallmans
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Nutritional Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden
| | - Tamara B. Harris
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Jiang He
- Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
| | - Sami Heikkinen
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Finland
| | - Chew-Kiat Heng
- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Khoo Teck Puat–National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Health System, Singapore
| | - Makoto Hirata
- Laboratory of Genome Technology, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Japan
| | - Barbara V. Howard
- MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, Maryland, United States of America
- Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences and Department of Medicine, Georgetown-Howard Universities, Washington, DC, United States of America
| | - M. Arfan Ikram
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | | | - Ulrich John
- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Social Medicine and Prevention, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Tomohiro Katsuya
- Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
- Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
| | - Chiea Chuen Khor
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
| | - Woon-Puay Koh
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
| | - José E. Krieger
- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
| | - Stephen B. Kritchevsky
- Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Prevention, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Michiaki Kubo
- Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan
| | - Johanna Kuusisto
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Timo A. Lakka
- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Carl D. Langefeld
- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Claudia Langenberg
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Lenore J. Launer
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Benjamin Lehne
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Cora E. Lewis
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America
| | - Yize Li
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
| | - Shiow Lin
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
| | - Jianjun Liu
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Jingmin Liu
- WHI CCC, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
| | - Marie Loh
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
| | - Tin Louie
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
| | - Reedik Mägi
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Colin A. McKenzie
- The Caribbean Institute for Health Research (CAIHR), University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
| | - Thomas Meitinger
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | | | - Yuri Milaneschi
- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Lili Milani
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Karen L. Mohlke
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Yukihide Momozawa
- Laboratory for Genotyping Development, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan
| | - Mike A. Nalls
- Data Tecnica International, Glen Echo, Maryland, United States of America
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Christopher P. Nelson
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom
| | - Nona Sotoodehnia
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
| | - Jill M. Norris
- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
| | - Jeff R. O'Connell
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Nicholette D. Palmer
- Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Thomas Perls
- Geriatrics Section, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Nancy L. Pedersen
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Annette Peters
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Patricia A. Peyser
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Neil Poulter
- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Leslie J. Raffel
- Division of Genetic and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America
| | - Olli T. Raitakari
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
| | - Kathryn Roll
- Genomic Outcomes, Pediatrics, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
| | - Lynda M. Rose
- Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Frits R. Rosendaal
- Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Jerome I. Rotter
- Genomic Outcomes, Pediatrics, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
| | - Carsten O. Schmidt
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Pamela J. Schreiner
- Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
| | - Nicole Schupf
- Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
| | - William R. Scott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Peter S. Sever
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Yuan Shi
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Stephen Sidney
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Oakland, California, United States of America
| | - Mario Sims
- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
| | - Colleen M. Sitlani
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
| | - Jennifer A. Smith
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Harold Snieder
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - John M. Starr
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - Konstantin Strauch
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, IBE, Faculty of Medicine, LMU, Munich, Germany
| | - Heather M. Stringham
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Nicholas Y. Q. Tan
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Hua Tang
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
| | - Kent D. Taylor
- Genomic Outcomes, Pediatrics, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
| | - Yik Ying Teo
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
- Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Yih Chung Tham
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Stephen T. Turner
- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
| | - André G. Uitterlinden
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Peter Vollenweider
- Service of Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Melanie Waldenberger
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Lihua Wang
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
| | - Ya Xing Wang
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
| | - Wen Bin Wei
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
| | - Christine Williams
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
| | - Jie Yao
- Genomic Outcomes, Pediatrics, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
| | - Caizheng Yu
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
| | - Jian-Min Yuan
- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, UPMC Hillman Cancer, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
| | - Wei Zhao
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Alan B. Zonderman
- Behavioral Epidemiology Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Diane M. Becker
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Michael Boehnke
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Donald W. Bowden
- Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - John C. Chambers
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Ian J. Deary
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - Tõnu Esko
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Martin Farrall
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
| | - Paul W. Franks
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
- Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Barry I. Freedman
- Nephrology, Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Philippe Froguel
- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille, France
- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Paolo Gasparini
- Institute for Maternal and Child Health—IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo", Trieste, Italy
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - Christian Gieger
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Jost Bruno Jonas
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany, Germany
| | - Yoichiro Kamatani
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan
| | - Norihiro Kato
- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Jaspal S. Kooner
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Zoltán Kutalik
- Swiss Instititute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Markku Laakso
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Cathy C. Laurie
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
| | - Karin Leander
- Unit of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Terho Lehtimäki
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center—Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
| | | | - Patrik K. E. Magnusson
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Albertine J. Oldehinkel
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Brenda W. J. H. Penninx
- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Ozren Polasek
- Department of Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
- Psychiatric Hospital "Sveti Ivan", Zagreb, Croatia
- Gen-info Ltd, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - David J. Porteous
- Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - Rainer Rauramaa
- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Nilesh J. Samani
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom
| | - James Scott
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Xiao-Ou Shu
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
| | - Pim van der Harst
- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Lynne E. Wagenknecht
- Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
| | | | - Hugh Watkins
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
| | - David R. Weir
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | | | - Tangchun Wu
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
| | - Wei Zheng
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
| | - Claude Bouchard
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
| | - Kaare Christensen
- The Danish Aging Research Center, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
| | - Michele K. Evans
- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Vilmundur Gudnason
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Bernardo L. Horta
- Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
| | - Sharon L. R. Kardia
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Yongmei Liu
- Public Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Alexandre C. Pereira
- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
| | - Bruce M. Psaty
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Epidemiology, Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Kaiser Permanente Washington, Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
| | - Paul M. Ridker
- Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Rob M. van Dam
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - W. James Gauderman
- Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
| | - Xiaofeng Zhu
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
| | - Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori
- Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Myriam Fornage
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
| | - Charles N. Rotimi
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - L. Adrienne Cupples
- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- The Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Tanika N. Kelly
- Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
| | - Ervin R. Fox
- Cardiology, Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
| | - Caroline Hayward
- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - Cornelia M. van Duijn
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - E Shyong Tai
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Tien Yin Wong
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Charles Kooperberg
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
| | - Walter Palmas
- Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
| | - Kenneth Rice
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
| | - Alanna C. Morrison
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
| | - Paul Elliott
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Mark J. Caulfield
- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Queen Mary University of London, London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Patricia B. Munroe
- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Queen Mary University of London, London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Dabeeru C. Rao
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
| | - Michael A. Province
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- The Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- The Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Sung YJ, Winkler TW, de Las Fuentes L, Bentley AR, Brown MR, Kraja AT, Schwander K, Ntalla I, Guo X, Franceschini N, Lu Y, Cheng CY, Sim X, Vojinovic D, Marten J, Musani SK, Li C, Feitosa MF, Kilpeläinen TO, Richard MA, Noordam R, Aslibekyan S, Aschard H, Bartz TM, Dorajoo R, Liu Y, Manning AK, Rankinen T, Smith AV, Tajuddin SM, Tayo BO, Warren HR, Zhao W, Zhou Y, Matoba N, Sofer T, Alver M, Amini M, Boissel M, Chai JF, Chen X, Divers J, Gandin I, Gao C, Giulianini F, Goel A, Harris SE, Hartwig FP, Horimoto ARVR, Hsu FC, Jackson AU, Kähönen M, Kasturiratne A, Kühnel B, Leander K, Lee WJ, Lin KH, 'an Luan J, McKenzie CA, Meian H, Nelson CP, Rauramaa R, Schupf N, Scott RA, Sheu WHH, Stančáková A, Takeuchi F, van der Most PJ, Varga TV, Wang H, Wang Y, Ware EB, Weiss S, Wen W, Yanek LR, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Afaq S, Alfred T, Amin N, Arking D, Aung T, Barr RG, Bielak LF, Boerwinkle E, Bottinger EP, Braund PS, Brody JA, Broeckel U, Cabrera CP, Cade B, Caizheng Y, Campbell A, Canouil M, Chakravarti A, Chauhan G, Christensen K, Cocca M, Collins FS, Connell JM, de Mutsert R, de Silva HJ, Debette S, Dörr M, Duan Q, Eaton CB, Ehret G, Evangelou E, Faul JD, Fisher VA, Forouhi NG, Franco OH, Friedlander Y, Gao H, Gigante B, Graff M, Gu CC, Gu D, Gupta P, Hagenaars SP, Harris TB, He J, Heikkinen S, Heng CK, Hirata M, Hofman A, Howard BV, Hunt S, Irvin MR, Jia Y, Joehanes R, Justice AE, Katsuya T, Kaufman J, Kerrison ND, Khor CC, Koh WP, Koistinen HA, Komulainen P, Kooperberg C, Krieger JE, Kubo M, Kuusisto J, Langefeld CD, Langenberg C, Launer LJ, Lehne B, Lewis CE, Li Y, Lim SH, Lin S, Liu CT, Liu J, Liu J, Liu K, Liu Y, Loh M, Lohman KK, Long J, Louie T, Mägi R, Mahajan A, Meitinger T, Metspalu A, Milani L, Momozawa Y, Morris AP, Mosley TH, Munson P, Murray AD, Nalls MA, Nasri U, Norris JM, North K, Ogunniyi A, Padmanabhan S, Palmas WR, Palmer ND, Pankow JS, Pedersen NL, Peters A, Peyser PA, Polasek O, Raitakari OT, Renström F, Rice TK, Ridker PM, Robino A, Robinson JG, Rose LM, Rudan I, Sabanayagam C, Salako BL, Sandow K, Schmidt CO, Schreiner PJ, Scott WR, Seshadri S, Sever P, Sitlani CM, Smith JA, Snieder H, Starr JM, Strauch K, Tang H, Taylor KD, Teo YY, Tham YC, Uitterlinden AG, Waldenberger M, Wang L, Wang YX, Wei WB, Williams C, Wilson G, Wojczynski MK, Yao J, Yuan JM, Zonderman AB, Becker DM, Boehnke M, Bowden DW, Chambers JC, Chen YDI, de Faire U, Deary IJ, Esko T, Farrall M, Forrester T, Franks PW, Freedman BI, Froguel P, Gasparini P, Gieger C, Horta BL, Hung YJ, Jonas JB, Kato N, Kooner JS, Laakso M, Lehtimäki T, Liang KW, Magnusson PKE, Newman AB, Oldehinkel AJ, Pereira AC, Redline S, Rettig R, Samani NJ, Scott J, Shu XO, van der Harst P, Wagenknecht LE, Wareham NJ, Watkins H, Weir DR, Wickremasinghe AR, Wu T, Zheng W, Kamatani Y, Laurie CC, Bouchard C, Cooper RS, Evans MK, Gudnason V, Kardia SLR, Kritchevsky SB, Levy D, O'Connell JR, Psaty BM, van Dam RM, Sims M, Arnett DK, Mook-Kanamori DO, Kelly TN, Fox ER, Hayward C, Fornage M, Rotimi CN, Province MA, van Duijn CM, Tai ES, Wong TY, Loos RJF, Reiner AP, Rotter JI, Zhu X, Bierut LJ, Gauderman WJ, Caulfield MJ, Elliott P, Rice K, Munroe PB, Morrison AC, Cupples LA, Rao DC, Chasman DI. A Large-Scale Multi-ancestry Genome-wide Study Accounting for Smoking Behavior Identifies Multiple Significant Loci for Blood Pressure. Am J Hum Genet 2018; 102:375-400. [PMID: 29455858 PMCID: PMC5985266 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2017] [Accepted: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Genome-wide association analysis advanced understanding of blood pressure (BP), a major risk factor for vascular conditions such as coronary heart disease and stroke. Accounting for smoking behavior may help identify BP loci and extend our knowledge of its genetic architecture. We performed genome-wide association meta-analyses of systolic and diastolic BP incorporating gene-smoking interactions in 610,091 individuals. Stage 1 analysis examined ∼18.8 million SNPs and small insertion/deletion variants in 129,913 individuals from four ancestries (European, African, Asian, and Hispanic) with follow-up analysis of promising variants in 480,178 additional individuals from five ancestries. We identified 15 loci that were genome-wide significant (p < 5 × 10-8) in stage 1 and formally replicated in stage 2. A combined stage 1 and 2 meta-analysis identified 66 additional genome-wide significant loci (13, 35, and 18 loci in European, African, and trans-ancestry, respectively). A total of 56 known BP loci were also identified by our results (p < 5 × 10-8). Of the newly identified loci, ten showed significant interaction with smoking status, but none of them were replicated in stage 2. Several loci were identified in African ancestry, highlighting the importance of genetic studies in diverse populations. The identified loci show strong evidence for regulatory features and support shared pathophysiology with cardiometabolic and addiction traits. They also highlight a role in BP regulation for biological candidates such as modulators of vascular structure and function (CDKN1B, BCAR1-CFDP1, PXDN, EEA1), ciliopathies (SDCCAG8, RPGRIP1L), telomere maintenance (TNKS, PINX1, AKTIP), and central dopaminergic signaling (MSRA, EBF2).
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Affiliation(s)
- Yun J Sung
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg 93051, Germany
| | - Lisa de Las Fuentes
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Aldi T Kraja
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
| | - Karen Schwander
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
| | - Ioanna Ntalla
- William Harvey Research Institute, Clinical Pharmacology, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
| | - Xiuqing Guo
- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
| | - Nora Franceschini
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
| | - Yingchang Lu
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore 169856, Singapore; Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore 169857, Singapore; Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117549, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39213, USA
| | - Changwei Li
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Giorgia at Athens College of Public Health, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Section of Metabolic Genetics, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark; Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
| | - Melissa A Richard
- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300RC, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Centre de Bioinformatique Biostatistique et Biologie Integrative (C3BI), Institut Pasteur, Paris 75015, France
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Biostatistics and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore 138672, Singapore
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- Division of Biostatistical Sciences, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Center for Human Genetics Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur 201, Iceland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik 101, Iceland
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- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Clinical Pharmacology, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK; NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
| | - Mathilde Boissel
- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille 59000, France
| | - Jin Fang Chai
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117549, Singapore
| | - Xu Chen
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden
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- Division of Biostatistical Sciences, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
| | - Ilaria Gandin
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste 34137, Italy
| | - Chuan Gao
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
| | - Franco Giulianini
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3 9DU, UK; Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK; Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine and MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Postgraduate Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS 96020220, Brazil
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- Lab Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Division of Biostatistical Sciences, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
| | - Anne U Jackson
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere 33014, Finland; Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Department of Social Work, Tunghai University, Taichung 40705, Taiwan
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- Department of Opthalmology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 40705, Taiwan
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona JMAAW15, Jamaica
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK; NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
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- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio 70100, Finland
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- Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer disease and the Aging Brain, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 40705, Taiwan; School of Medicine, National Yang-ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Medical Technology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 40705, Taiwan
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio 70210, Finland
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- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo 1628655, Japan
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
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- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Skåne 205 02, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
| | - Yajuan Wang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
| | - Erin B Ware
- School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Institute for Social Research, Research Center for Group Dynamics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
| | - Stefan Weiss
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine and Ernst-Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald 17487, Germany; DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
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- General Internal Medicine, GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex UB1 3HW, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore 169856, Singapore; Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore 169857, Singapore; Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore
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- Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
| | - Lawrence F Bielak
- School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
| | - Peter S Braund
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK; NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
| | - Ulrich Broeckel
- Section of Genomic Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Medicine and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
| | - Claudia P Cabrera
- William Harvey Research Institute, Clinical Pharmacology, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK; NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- Sleep Medicine and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille 59000, France
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- Center for Complex Disease Genomics, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Schience, Bangalore 560012, India
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- The Danish Aging Research Center, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste 34137, Italy
| | - Francis S Collins
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 9SY, UK
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300RC, the Netherlands
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- Inserm U1219 Neuroepidemiology, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Bordeaux, France; Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany; Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
| | - Charles B Eaton
- Department of Family Medicine and Epidemiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02860, USA
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- Center for Complex Disease Genomics, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Division of Cardiology, Department of Specialties of Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva 1211, Switzerland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina 45110, Greece
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- Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Oscar H Franco
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Bruna Gigante
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
| | - Dongfeng Gu
- Department of Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore 169856, Singapore
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK; Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
| | - Tamara B Harris
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA; Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
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- University of Eastern Finland, Institute of Biomedicine, Kuopio 70211, Finland
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- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore; Khoo Teck Puat - National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Health System, Singapore 119228, Singapore
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- Laboratory of Genome Technology, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku 108-8639, Japan
| | - Albert Hofman
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA; Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences and Department of Medicine, Georgetown-Howard Universities, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Cardiovascular Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA; Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Hebrew SeniorLife, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02131, USA; Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20982, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
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- Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita 5650871, Japan; Department of Geriatric and General Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita 5650871, Japan
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- Epidemiology, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore 138672, Singapore; Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117596, Singapore
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117549, Singapore; Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore 169857, Singapore
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- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland; Department of Medicine and Abdominal Center: Endocrinology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki 00029, Finland
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- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio 70100, Finland
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Lab Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio 70210, Finland
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- Division of Biostatistical Sciences, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35205, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore 169856, Singapore
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117549, Singapore; Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore 138672, Singapore
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- WHI CCC, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
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- Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, Agency for Science, Technology and Research 138648, Singapore
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- Division of Biostatistical Sciences, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich 80333, Germany
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Laboratory for Genotyping Development, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK; Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GL, UK
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- Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
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- Mathematical and Statistical Computing Laboratory, Center for Information Technology, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- The Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK
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- Data Tecnica International, Glen Echo, MD 20812, USA; Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK
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- Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
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- School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku 20521, Finland; Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku 20520, Finland
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- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Skåne 205 02, Sweden; Department of Biobank Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Västerbotten 901 87, Sweden
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore 169856, Singapore; Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore 169857, Singapore
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- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany; Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20982, USA; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- International Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK; Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, IBE, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich 81377, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117549, Singapore; Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore 138672, Singapore; Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117456, Singapore; NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117456, Singapore; Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117546, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore 169856, Singapore
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China 100730, China
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100730, China
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Public Health, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS 39213, USA
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
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- Behavioral Epidemiology Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- General Internal Medicine, GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex UB1 3HW, UK
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- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK; Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Boston, MA 02142, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3 9DU, UK; Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona JMAAW15, Jamaica
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- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Skåne 205 02, Sweden; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Västerbotten 901 85, Sweden
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille 59000, France; Department of Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste 34137, Italy; Division Experimental Genetics, Sidra, Doha 26999, Qatar
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Neuherberg 85764, Germany
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- Postgraduate Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS 96020220, Brazil
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- Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei City, Taipei 11490, Taiwan
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100730, China; Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University Heidelberg, Mannheim 68167, Germany
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- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo 1628655, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex UB1 3HW, UK; National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio 70210, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere 33520, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Lifes Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere 33014, Finland
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- School of Medicine, National Yang-ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; Cardiovascular Center, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 40705, Taiwan; Department of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung 40705, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
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- Lab Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Sleep Medicine and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany; Institute of Physiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17495, Germany
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK; NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3 9DU, UK; Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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- Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
| | - Richard S Cooper
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
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- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur 201, Iceland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik 101, Iceland
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- School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Sticht Center for Health Aging and Alzheimer's Prevention, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20982, USA; Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Epidemiology, Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Kaiser Permanente Washington, Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117549, Singapore; Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore
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- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39213, USA
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- Dean's Office, University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300RC, the Netherlands; Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300RC, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
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- Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Charles N Rotimi
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
| | - Michael A Province
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
| | - Cornelia M van Duijn
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117549, Singapore; Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore 169857, Singapore; Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore
| | - Tien Yin Wong
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore 169856, Singapore; Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore 169857, Singapore; Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, New York, NY 10029, USA
| | - Alex P Reiner
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA; Genomic Outcomes, Department of Medicine, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
| | - W James Gauderman
- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Clinical Pharmacology, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK; NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Kenneth Rice
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
| | - Patricia B Munroe
- William Harvey Research Institute, Clinical Pharmacology, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK; NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA; Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20982, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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Jason F, Fuchsberger C, Mahajan A, Teslovich TM, Agarwala V, Gaulton KJ, Caulkins L, Koesterer R, Ma C, Moutsianas L, McCarthy DJ, Rivas MA, Perry JRB, Sim X, Blackwell TW, Robertson NR, Rayner NW, Cingolani P, Locke AE, Tajes JF, Highland HM, Dupuis J, Chines PS, Lindgren CM, Hartl C, Jackson AU, Chen H, Huyghe JR, van de Bunt M, Pearson RD, Kumar A, Müller-Nurasyid M, Grarup N, Stringham HM, Gamazon ER, Lee J, Chen Y, Scott RA, Below JE, Chen P, Huang J, Go MJ, Stitzel ML, Pasko D, Parker SCJ, Varga TV, Green T, Beer NL, Day-Williams AG, Ferreira T, Fingerlin T, Horikoshi M, Hu C, Huh I, Ikram MK, Kim BJ, Kim Y, Kim YJ, Kwon MS, Lee J, Lee S, Lin KH, Maxwell TJ, Nagai Y, Wang X, Welch RP, Yoon J, Zhang W, Barzilai N, Voight BF, Han BG, Jenkinson CP, Kuulasmaa T, Kuusisto J, Manning A, Ng MCY, Palmer ND, Balkau B, Stančáková A, Abboud HE, Boeing H, Giedraitis V, Prabhakaran D, Gottesman O, Scott J, Carey J, Kwan P, Grant G, Smith JD, Neale BM, Purcell S, Butterworth AS, Howson JMM, Lee HM, Lu Y, Kwak SH, Zhao W, Danesh J, Lam VKL, Park KS, Saleheen D, So WY, Tam CHT, Afzal U, Aguilar D, Arya R, Aung T, Chan E, Navarro C, Cheng CY, Palli D, Correa A, Curran JE, Rybin D, Farook VS, Fowler SP, Freedman BI, Griswold M, Hale DE, Hicks PJ, Khor CC, Kumar S, Lehne B, Thuillier D, Lim WY, Liu J, Loh M, Musani SK, Puppala S, Scott WR, Yengo L, Tan ST, Taylor HA, Thameem F, Wilson G, Wong TY, Njølstad PR, Levy JC, Mangino M, Bonnycastle LL, Schwarzmayr T, Fadista J, Surdulescu GL, Herder C, Groves CJ, Wieland T, Bork-Jensen J, Brandslund I, Christensen C, Koistinen HA, Doney ASF, Kinnunen L, Esko T, Farmer AJ, Hakaste L, Hodgkiss D, Kravic J, Lyssenko V, Hollensted M, Jørgensen ME, Jørgensen T, Ladenvall C, Justesen JM, Käräjämäki A, Kriebel J, Rathmann W, Lannfelt L, Lauritzen T, Narisu N, Linneberg A, Melander O, Milani L, Neville M, Orho-Melander M, Qi L, Qi Q, Roden M, Rolandsson O, Swift A, Rosengren AH, Stirrups K, Wood AR, Mihailov E, Blancher C, Carneiro MO, Maguire J, Poplin R, Shakir K, Fennell T, DePristo M, de Angelis MH, Deloukas P, Gjesing AP, Jun G, Nilsson P, Murphy J, Onofrio R, Thorand B, Hansen T, Meisinger C, Hu FB, Isomaa B, Karpe F, Liang L, Peters A, Huth C, O'Rahilly SP, Palmer CNA, Pedersen O, Rauramaa R, Tuomilehto J, Salomaa V, Watanabe RM, Syvänen AC, Bergman RN, Bharadwaj D, Bottinger EP, Cho YS, Chandak GR, Chan JCN, Chia KS, Daly MJ, Ebrahim SB, Langenberg C, Elliott P, Jablonski KA, Lehman DM, Jia W, Ma RCW, Pollin TI, Sandhu M, Tandon N, Froguel P, Barroso I, Teo YY, Zeggini E, Loos RJF, Small KS, Ried JS, DeFronzo RA, Grallert H, Glaser B, Metspalu A, Wareham NJ, Walker M, Banks E, Gieger C, Ingelsson E, Im HK, Illig T, Franks PW, Buck G, Trakalo J, Buck D, Prokopenko I, Mägi R, Lind L, Farjoun Y, Owen KR, Gloyn AL, Strauch K, Tuomi T, Kooner JS, Lee JY, Park T, Donnelly P, Morris AD, Hattersley AT, Bowden DW, Collins FS, Atzmon G, Chambers JC, Spector TD, Laakso M, Strom TM, Bell GI, Blangero J, Duggirala R, Tai ES, McVean G, Hanis CL, Wilson JG, Seielstad M, Frayling TM, Meigs JB, Cox NJ, Sladek R, Lander ES, Gabriel S, Mohlke KL, Meitinger T, Groop L, Abecasis G, Scott LJ, Morris AP, Kang HM, Altshuler D, Burtt NP, Florez JC, Boehnke M, McCarthy MI. Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls. Sci Data 2017; 4:170179. [PMID: 29257133 PMCID: PMC5735917 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2017.179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2017] [Accepted: 11/02/2017] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
Abstract
To investigate the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) to high resolution, the GoT2D and T2D-GENES consortia catalogued variation from whole-genome sequencing of 2,657 European individuals and exome sequencing of 12,940 individuals of multiple ancestries. Over 27M SNPs, indels, and structural variants were identified, including 99% of low-frequency (minor allele frequency [MAF] 0.1-5%) non-coding variants in the whole-genome sequenced individuals and 99.7% of low-frequency coding variants in the whole-exome sequenced individuals. Each variant was tested for association with T2D in the sequenced individuals, and, to increase power, most were tested in larger numbers of individuals (>80% of low-frequency coding variants in ~82 K Europeans via the exome chip, and ~90% of low-frequency non-coding variants in ~44 K Europeans via genotype imputation). The variants, genotypes, and association statistics from these analyses provide the largest reference to date of human genetic information relevant to T2D, for use in activities such as T2D-focused genotype imputation, functional characterization of variants or genes, and other novel analyses to detect associations between sequence variation and T2D.
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Affiliation(s)
- Flannick Jason
- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Anubha Mahajan
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Tanya M. Teslovich
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Vineeta Agarwala
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Kyle J. Gaulton
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Lizz Caulkins
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Ryan Koesterer
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Clement Ma
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Loukas Moutsianas
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Davis J. McCarthy
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Manuel A. Rivas
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - John R. B. Perry
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK,MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK,Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
| | - Xueling Sim
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Thomas W. Blackwell
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Neil R. Robertson
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
| | - Pablo Cingolani
- School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada,McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| | - Adam E. Locke
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Juan Fernandez Tajes
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Heather M. Highland
- Human Genetics Center, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - Josee Dupuis
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Peter S. Chines
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
| | - Cecilia M. Lindgren
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Christopher Hartl
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Anne U. Jackson
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Han Chen
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Jeroen R. Huyghe
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Martijn van de Bunt
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Richard D. Pearson
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Ashish Kumar
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
| | - Martina Müller-Nurasyid
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany,Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany,Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, IBE, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Germany,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
| | - Niels Grarup
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Heather M. Stringham
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Eric R. Gamazon
- Department of Medicine, Section of Genetic Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - Jaehoon Lee
- Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Yuhui Chen
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Robert A. Scott
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Jennifer E. Below
- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - Peng Chen
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Jinyan Huang
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Min Jin Go
- Center for Genome Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea
| | - Michael L. Stitzel
- The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
| | - Dorota Pasko
- Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
| | - Stephen C. J. Parker
- Departments of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics and Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Tibor V. Varga
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Todd Green
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Nicola L. Beer
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Aaron G. Day-Williams
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
| | - Teresa Ferreira
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Tasha Fingerlin
- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA
| | - Momoko Horikoshi
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Cheng Hu
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China
| | - Iksoo Huh
- Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Mohammad Kamran Ikram
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore,Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore,The Eye Academic Clinical Programme, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
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- Center for Genome Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea
| | - Yongkang Kim
- Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Young Jin Kim
- Center for Genome Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea
| | - Min-Seok Kwon
- Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Juyoung Lee
- Center for Genome Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea
| | - Selyeong Lee
- Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Keng-Han Lin
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Taylor J. Maxwell
- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - Yoshihiko Nagai
- McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada,Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada,Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| | - Xu Wang
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Ryan P. Welch
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Joon Yoon
- Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Weihua Zhang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK,Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, UK
| | - Nir Barzilai
- Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
| | - Benjamin F. Voight
- Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania—Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA,Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania—Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Bok-Ghee Han
- Center for Genome Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea
| | - Christopher P. Jenkinson
- Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA,Research, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Johanna Kuusisto
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland,Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Alisa Manning
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Maggie C. Y. Ng
- Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA,Center for Diabetes Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
| | - Nicholette D. Palmer
- Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA,Center for Diabetes Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA,Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
| | - Beverley Balkau
- Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Inserm U1018, Villejuif, France
| | - Alena Stančáková
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Hanna E. Abboud
- Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA
| | - Heiner Boeing
- German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany
| | - Vilmantas Giedraitis
- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Geriatrics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
| | - James Scott
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Cardiovascular Sciences, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Jason Carey
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Phoenix Kwan
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - George Grant
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Joshua D. Smith
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
| | - Benjamin M. Neale
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Shaun Purcell
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,Center for Genomic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Department of Psychiatry, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
| | - Adam S. Butterworth
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Joanna M. M. Howson
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Heung Man Lee
- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
| | - Yingchang Lu
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
| | - Soo-Heon Kwak
- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Wei Zhao
- Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - John Danesh
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK,Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK,NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Vincent K. L. Lam
- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
| | - Kyong Soo Park
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, and College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Danish Saleheen
- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA,Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan
| | - Wing Yee So
- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
| | - Claudia H. T. Tam
- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
| | - Uzma Afzal
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - David Aguilar
- Cardiovascular Division, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - Rector Arya
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA
| | - Tin Aung
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore,Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore,The Eye Academic Clinical Programme, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Edmund Chan
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Carmen Navarro
- Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain,CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain,Unit of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Murcia, Spain
| | - Ching-Yu Cheng
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore,Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore,Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore,The Eye Academic Clinical Programme, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Domenico Palli
- Cancer Research and Prevention Institute (ISPO), Florence, Italy
| | - Adolfo Correa
- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
| | - Joanne E. Curran
- South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, Regional Academic Health Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio/University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas, USA
| | - Dennis Rybin
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Vidya S. Farook
- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA
| | - Sharon P. Fowler
- Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA
| | - Barry I. Freedman
- Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Nephrology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
| | - Michael Griswold
- Center of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
| | - Daniel Esten Hale
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA
| | - Pamela J. Hicks
- Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA,Center for Diabetes Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA,Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
| | - Chiea-Chuen Khor
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore,Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore,Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore,Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore,Division of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Satish Kumar
- South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, Regional Academic Health Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio/University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas, USA
| | - Benjamin Lehne
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Jianjun Liu
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore,Division of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Marie Loh
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK,Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland,Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine (TLGM), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore
| | - Solomon K. Musani
- Jackson Heart Study, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
| | - Sobha Puppala
- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA
| | - William R. Scott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Loïc Yengo
- CNRS-UMR8199, Lille University, Lille Pasteur Institute, Lille, France
| | - Sian-Tsung Tan
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, UK,National Heart and Lung Institute, Cardiovascular Sciences, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Herman A. Taylor
- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
| | - Farook Thameem
- Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA
| | - Gregory Wilson
- College of Public Services, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
| | - Tien Yin Wong
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore,Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore,The Eye Academic Clinical Programme, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
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- KG Jebsen Center for Diabetes Research, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway,Department of Pediatrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
| | - Jonathan C. Levy
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Massimo Mangino
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK,NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust, London, UK
| | - Lori L. Bonnycastle
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
| | - Thomas Schwarzmayr
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - João Fadista
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
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- Institute of Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany,German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Christopher J. Groves
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Thomas Wieland
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Jette Bork-Jensen
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Ivan Brandslund
- Institute of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark,Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Vejle Hospital, Vejle, Denmark
| | - Cramer Christensen
- Department of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Vejle Hospital, Vejle, Denmark
| | - Heikki A. Koistinen
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland,Abdominal Center: Endocrinology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland,Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland,Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Alex S. F. Doney
- Division of Cardiovascular and Diabetes Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK
| | - Leena Kinnunen
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Tõnu Esko
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia,Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Andrew J. Farmer
- Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Liisa Hakaste
- Abdominal Center: Endocrinology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland,Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland,Research Programs Unit, Diabetes and Obesity, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Dylan Hodgkiss
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
| | - Jasmina Kravic
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Valeri Lyssenko
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Mette Hollensted
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | | | - Torben Jørgensen
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Capital Region of Denmark, Glostrup, Denmark,Department of Public Health, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark,Faculty of Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
| | - Claes Ladenvall
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Johanne Marie Justesen
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Annemari Käräjämäki
- Department of Primary Health Care, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland,Diabetes Center, Vaasa Health Care Center, Vaasa, Finland
| | - Jennifer Kriebel
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany,Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Wolfgang Rathmann
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany,Institute for Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
| | - Lars Lannfelt
- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Geriatrics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Torsten Lauritzen
- Department of Public Health, Section of General Practice, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
| | - Narisu Narisu
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
| | - Allan Linneberg
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Capital Region of Denmark, Glostrup, Denmark,Department of Clinical Experimental Research, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark,Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Olle Melander
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Lili Milani
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Matt Neville
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
| | - Marju Orho-Melander
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, Genetic Epidemiology, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Lu Qi
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Qibin Qi
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
| | - Michael Roden
- Institute of Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany,German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany,Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
| | - Olov Rolandsson
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Amy Swift
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
| | - Anders H. Rosengren
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Kathleen Stirrups
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
| | - Andrew R. Wood
- Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
| | | | - Christine Blancher
- High Throughput Genomics, Oxford Genomics Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Mauricio O. Carneiro
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Jared Maguire
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Ryan Poplin
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Khalid Shakir
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Timothy Fennell
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Mark DePristo
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Martin Hrabé de Angelis
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany,Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany,Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
| | - Panos Deloukas
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK,William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK,Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
| | - Anette P. Gjesing
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Goo Jun
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA,Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - Peter Nilsson
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Jacquelyn Murphy
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Robert Onofrio
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Barbara Thorand
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Torben Hansen
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark,Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
| | - Christa Meisinger
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Frank B. Hu
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Bo Isomaa
- Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland,Department of Social Services and Health Care, Jakobstad, Finland
| | - Fredrik Karpe
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
| | - Liming Liang
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Annette Peters
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany,German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Cornelia Huth
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Stephen P O'Rahilly
- Metabolic Research Laboratories, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Colin N. A. Palmer
- Pat Macpherson Centre for Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics, Medical Research Institute, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK
| | - Oluf Pedersen
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Rainer Rauramaa
- Foundation for Research in Health, Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Jaakko Tuomilehto
- Center for Vascular Prevention, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria,Diabetes Research Group, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait,National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Veikko Salomaa
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Richard M. Watanabe
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA,Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA,Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
| | - Ann-Christine Syvänen
- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Medicine and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Richard N. Bergman
- Cedars-Sinai Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA
| | - Dwaipayan Bharadwaj
- Functional Genomics Unit, CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), New Delhi, India
| | - Erwin P. Bottinger
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
| | - Yoon Shin Cho
- Department of Biomedical Science, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
| | - Giriraj R. Chandak
- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
| | - Juliana CN Chan
- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China,Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China,Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
| | - Kee Seng Chia
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Mark J. Daly
- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | | | - Claudia Langenberg
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Paul Elliott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK,MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Kathleen A. Jablonski
- The Biostatistics Center, The George Washington University, Rockville, Maryland, USA
| | - Donna M. Lehman
- Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA
| | - Weiping Jia
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China
| | - Ronald C. W. Ma
- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China,Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China,Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
| | - Toni I. Pollin
- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, and Program in Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Manjinder Sandhu
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK,Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Nikhil Tandon
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
| | - Philippe Froguel
- CNRS-UMR8199, Lille University, Lille Pasteur Institute, Lille, France,Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Inês Barroso
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK,Metabolic Research Laboratories, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Yik Ying Teo
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore,Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore,Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Eleftheria Zeggini
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
| | - Ruth J. F. Loos
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
| | - Kerrin S. Small
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
| | - Janina S. Ried
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Ralph A. DeFronzo
- Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA
| | - Harald Grallert
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany,Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Benjamin Glaser
- Endocrinology and Metabolism Service, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
| | | | - Nicholas J. Wareham
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Mark Walker
- The Medical School, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
| | - Eric Banks
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Christian Gieger
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany,Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Erik Ingelsson
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Hae Kyung Im
- Department of Medicine, Section of Genetic Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - Thomas Illig
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany,Hannover Unified Biobank, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany,Department of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
| | - Paul W. Franks
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden,Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Gemma Buck
- High Throughput Genomics, Oxford Genomics Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Joseph Trakalo
- High Throughput Genomics, Oxford Genomics Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - David Buck
- High Throughput Genomics, Oxford Genomics Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Inga Prokopenko
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Reedik Mägi
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Lars Lind
- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Yossi Farjoun
- Data Sciences and Data Engineering, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Katharine R. Owen
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
| | - Anna L. Gloyn
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
| | - Konstantin Strauch
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany,Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, IBE, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Germany
| | - Tiinamaija Tuomi
- Abdominal Center: Endocrinology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland,Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland,Research Programs Unit, Diabetes and Obesity, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland,Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Jaspal Singh Kooner
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, UK,National Heart and Lung Institute, Cardiovascular Sciences, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College London, London, UK,Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Jong-Young Lee
- Center for Genome Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea
| | - Taesung Park
- Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea,Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Peter Donnelly
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Andrew D. Morris
- Clinical Research Centre, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK,The Usher Institute to the Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | | | - Donald W. Bowden
- Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA,Center for Diabetes Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA,Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
| | - Francis S. Collins
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
| | - Gil Atzmon
- Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA,Department of Natural Science, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
| | - John C. Chambers
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK,Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, UK,Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Timothy D. Spector
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
| | - Markku Laakso
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland,Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Tim M. Strom
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany,Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - Graeme I. Bell
- Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - John Blangero
- South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, Regional Academic Health Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio/University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas, USA
| | | | - E. Shyong Tai
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore,Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore,Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Gilean McVean
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Craig L. Hanis
- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - James G. Wilson
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
| | - Mark Seielstad
- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA,Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Timothy M. Frayling
- Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
| | - James B. Meigs
- General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Nancy J. Cox
- Department of Medicine, Section of Genetic Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - Rob Sladek
- McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada,Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada,Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| | - Eric S. Lander
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Stacey Gabriel
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Karen L. Mohlke
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
| | - Thomas Meitinger
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany,Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - Leif Groop
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden,Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Goncalo Abecasis
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Laura J. Scott
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Andrew P. Morris
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia,Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
| | - Hyun Min Kang
- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - David Altshuler
- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Diabetes Research Center (Diabetes Unit), Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Noël P. Burtt
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Jose C. Florez
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,Center for Genomic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,Diabetes Research Center (Diabetes Unit), Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Michael Boehnke
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Mark I. McCarthy
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
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Wheeler E, Leong A, Liu CT, Hivert MF, Strawbridge RJ, Podmore C, Li M, Yao J, Sim X, Hong J, Chu AY, Zhang W, Wang X, Chen P, Maruthur NM, Porneala BC, Sharp SJ, Jia Y, Kabagambe EK, Chang LC, Chen WM, Elks CE, Evans DS, Fan Q, Giulianini F, Go MJ, Hottenga JJ, Hu Y, Jackson AU, Kanoni S, Kim YJ, Kleber ME, Ladenvall C, Lecoeur C, Lim SH, Lu Y, Mahajan A, Marzi C, Nalls MA, Navarro P, Nolte IM, Rose LM, Rybin DV, Sanna S, Shi Y, Stram DO, Takeuchi F, Tan SP, van der Most PJ, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk JV, Wong A, Yengo L, Zhao W, Goel A, Martinez Larrad MT, Radke D, Salo P, Tanaka T, van Iperen EPA, Abecasis G, Afaq S, Alizadeh BZ, Bertoni AG, Bonnefond A, Böttcher Y, Bottinger EP, Campbell H, Carlson OD, Chen CH, Cho YS, Garvey WT, Gieger C, Goodarzi MO, Grallert H, Hamsten A, Hartman CA, Herder C, Hsiung CA, Huang J, Igase M, Isono M, Katsuya T, Khor CC, Kiess W, Kohara K, Kovacs P, Lee J, Lee WJ, Lehne B, Li H, Liu J, Lobbens S, Luan J, Lyssenko V, Meitinger T, Miki T, Miljkovic I, Moon S, Mulas A, Müller G, Müller-Nurasyid M, Nagaraja R, Nauck M, Pankow JS, Polasek O, Prokopenko I, Ramos PS, Rasmussen-Torvik L, Rathmann W, Rich SS, Robertson NR, Roden M, Roussel R, Rudan I, Scott RA, Scott WR, Sennblad B, Siscovick DS, Strauch K, Sun L, Swertz M, Tajuddin SM, Taylor KD, Teo YY, Tham YC, Tönjes A, Wareham NJ, Willemsen G, Wilsgaard T, Hingorani AD, Egan J, Ferrucci L, Hovingh GK, Jula A, Kivimaki M, Kumari M, Njølstad I, Palmer CNA, Serrano Ríos M, Stumvoll M, Watkins H, Aung T, Blüher M, Boehnke M, Boomsma DI, Bornstein SR, Chambers JC, Chasman DI, Chen YDI, Chen YT, Cheng CY, Cucca F, de Geus EJC, Deloukas P, Evans MK, Fornage M, Friedlander Y, Froguel P, Groop L, Gross MD, Harris TB, Hayward C, Heng CK, Ingelsson E, Kato N, Kim BJ, Koh WP, Kooner JS, Körner A, Kuh D, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Lin X, Liu Y, Loos RJF, Magnusson PKE, März W, McCarthy MI, Oldehinkel AJ, Ong KK, Pedersen NL, Pereira MA, Peters A, Ridker PM, Sabanayagam C, Sale M, Saleheen D, Saltevo J, Schwarz PEH, Sheu WHH, Snieder H, Spector TD, Tabara Y, Tuomilehto J, van Dam RM, Wilson JG, Wilson JF, Wolffenbuttel BHR, Wong TY, Wu JY, Yuan JM, Zonderman AB, Soranzo N, Guo X, Roberts DJ, Florez JC, Sladek R, Dupuis J, Morris AP, Tai ES, Selvin E, Rotter JI, Langenberg C, Barroso I, Meigs JB. Impact of common genetic determinants of Hemoglobin A1c on type 2 diabetes risk and diagnosis in ancestrally diverse populations: A transethnic genome-wide meta-analysis. PLoS Med 2017; 14:e1002383. [PMID: 28898252 PMCID: PMC5595282 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 256] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2017] [Accepted: 08/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is used to diagnose type 2 diabetes (T2D) and assess glycemic control in patients with diabetes. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 18 HbA1c-associated genetic variants. These variants proved to be classifiable by their likely biological action as erythrocytic (also associated with erythrocyte traits) or glycemic (associated with other glucose-related traits). In this study, we tested the hypotheses that, in a very large scale GWAS, we would identify more genetic variants associated with HbA1c and that HbA1c variants implicated in erythrocytic biology would affect the diagnostic accuracy of HbA1c. We therefore expanded the number of HbA1c-associated loci and tested the effect of genetic risk-scores comprised of erythrocytic or glycemic variants on incident diabetes prediction and on prevalent diabetes screening performance. Throughout this multiancestry study, we kept a focus on interancestry differences in HbA1c genetics performance that might influence race-ancestry differences in health outcomes. METHODS & FINDINGS Using genome-wide association meta-analyses in up to 159,940 individuals from 82 cohorts of European, African, East Asian, and South Asian ancestry, we identified 60 common genetic variants associated with HbA1c. We classified variants as implicated in glycemic, erythrocytic, or unclassified biology and tested whether additive genetic scores of erythrocytic variants (GS-E) or glycemic variants (GS-G) were associated with higher T2D incidence in multiethnic longitudinal cohorts (N = 33,241). Nineteen glycemic and 22 erythrocytic variants were associated with HbA1c at genome-wide significance. GS-G was associated with higher T2D risk (incidence OR = 1.05, 95% CI 1.04-1.06, per HbA1c-raising allele, p = 3 × 10-29); whereas GS-E was not (OR = 1.00, 95% CI 0.99-1.01, p = 0.60). In Europeans and Asians, erythrocytic variants in aggregate had only modest effects on the diagnostic accuracy of HbA1c. Yet, in African Americans, the X-linked G6PD G202A variant (T-allele frequency 11%) was associated with an absolute decrease in HbA1c of 0.81%-units (95% CI 0.66-0.96) per allele in hemizygous men, and 0.68%-units (95% CI 0.38-0.97) in homozygous women. The G6PD variant may cause approximately 2% (N = 0.65 million, 95% CI 0.55-0.74) of African American adults with T2D to remain undiagnosed when screened with HbA1c. Limitations include the smaller sample sizes for non-European ancestries and the inability to classify approximately one-third of the variants. Further studies in large multiethnic cohorts with HbA1c, glycemic, and erythrocytic traits are required to better determine the biological action of the unclassified variants. CONCLUSIONS As G6PD deficiency can be clinically silent until illness strikes, we recommend investigation of the possible benefits of screening for the G6PD genotype along with using HbA1c to diagnose T2D in populations of African ancestry or groups where G6PD deficiency is common. Screening with direct glucose measurements, or genetically-informed HbA1c diagnostic thresholds in people with G6PD deficiency, may be required to avoid missed or delayed diagnoses.
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Affiliation(s)
- Eleanor Wheeler
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Universitetsjukhuset, Solna, Sweden
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
- Division of Nephrology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States of America
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States of America
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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- Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America
- Key Laboratory of Pathobiology, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China
- College of Basic Medical Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
- Division of General Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
- Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States of America
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States of America
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- University of Virginia Center for Public Health Genomics, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Personalised Healthcare & Biomarkers, Innovative Medicines and Early Development Biotech Unit, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, United States of America
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- Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Division of Structural and Functional Genomics, Center for Genome Science, Korean National Institute of Health, Osong, Chungchungbuk-do, South Korea
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- Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- The Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Structural and Functional Genomics, Center for Genome Science, Korean National Institute of Health, Osong, Chungchungbuk-do, South Korea
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- Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Lund University Diabetes Centre, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- University of Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur of Lille, UMR 8199—EGID, Lille, France
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, The Academia Level 6, Discovery Tower, Singapore, Singapore
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America
- The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Partner Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Data Tecnica International, Glen Echo, MD, United States of America
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Data Coordinating Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB), CNR, Monserrato, Italy
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, The Academia Level 6, Discovery Tower, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, The Academia Level 6, Discovery Tower, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
- Department of Endocrinology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing, London, United Kingdom
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- University of Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur of Lille, UMR 8199—EGID, Lille, France
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, The Academia Level 6, Discovery Tower, Singapore, Singapore
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland
- University of Helsinki, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Finland (FIMM) and Diabetes and Obesity Research Program, Helsinki, Finland
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- Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, ICIN-Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America
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- University of Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur of Lille, UMR 8199—EGID, Lille, France
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- Integrated Research and Treatment (IFB) Center Adiposity Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung City, Taiwan
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- Division of Structural and Functional Genomics, Center for Genome Science, Korean National Institute of Health, Osong, Chungchungbuk-do, South Korea
- Department of Biomedical Science, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, South Korea
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- Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, United States of America
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Partner Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Universitetsjukhuset, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Institute for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America
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- Boston VA Research Institute, Inc., Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan
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- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
- Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
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- Center of Pediatric Research, University Hospital for Children & Adolescents, Dept. of Women's & Child Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- LIFE Child, LIFE Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University, Ehime, Japan
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- Integrated Research and Treatment (IFB) Center Adiposity Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Division of Structural and Functional Genomics, Center for Genome Science, Korean National Institute of Health, Osong, Chungchungbuk-do, South Korea
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- Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- The Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
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- University of Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur of Lille, UMR 8199—EGID, Lille, France
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
- Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany
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- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan
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- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America
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- Division of Structural and Functional Genomics, Center for Genome Science, Korean National Institute of Health, Osong, Chungchungbuk-do, South Korea
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB), CNR, Monserrato, Italy
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- Center for Evidence-based Healthcare, University Hospital and Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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- Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America
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- University of Split, Split, Croatia
- Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States of America
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America
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- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Institute for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- INSERM, UMR_S 1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordelier, Paris, France
- Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UFR de Médecine, Paris, France
- Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Bichat Hospital, DHU FIRE, Department of Diabetology, Endocrinology and Nutrition, Paris, France
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- University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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- Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Universitetsjukhuset, Solna, Sweden
- Science for life laboratory, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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- The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
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- The Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Health Disparities Unit, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States of America
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, The Academia Level 6, Discovery Tower, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Medicine; University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Dept of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
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- Dept of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
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- Pat Macpherson Centre for Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics, Medical Research Institute, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, The Academia Level 6, Discovery Tower, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Medicine; University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America
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- Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Dept of Medicine III, University of Dresden, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States of America
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, The Academia Level 6, Discovery Tower, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB), CNR, Monserrato, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Italy
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- Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Health Disparities Unit, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America
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- Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- CNRS 8199-Lille University, France
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- Lund University Diabetes Centre, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine (FIMM), Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America
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- National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
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- Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Structural and Functional Genomics, Center for Genome Science, Korean National Institute of Health, Osong, Chungchungbuk-do, South Korea
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London, United Kingdom
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- Center of Pediatric Research, University Hospital for Children & Adolescents, Dept. of Women's & Child Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- LIFE Child, LIFE Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- The Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America
- The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America
- The Mindich Child Health Development Institute, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Insitutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Winfried März
- Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
- Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- Synlab Academy, Synlab Services GmbH, Mannheim, Germany
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- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Insitutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, The Academia Level 6, Discovery Tower, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
- Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Medicine, Central Hospital, Central Finland, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Dept of Medicine III, University of Dresden, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Endocrine and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Chronic Disease Prevention Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait
- Centre for Vascular Prevention, Danube-University Krems, Krems, Austria
- Saudi Diabetes Research Group, King Abdulaziz University, Fahd Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - James G. Wilson
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States of America
| | - James F. Wilson
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- Department of Endocrinology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, The Academia Level 6, Discovery Tower, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung City, Taiwan
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- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America
- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences,University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America
| | - Alan B. Zonderman
- Laboratory of Epidemiology & Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States of America
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- Biomedical Research Centre Oxford Haematology Theme and Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Diabetes Unit and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Programs in Metabolism and Medical & Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States of America
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
- Division of General Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
- Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States of America
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Programs in Metabolism and Medical & Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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Manning A, Highland HM, Gasser J, Sim X, Tukiainen T, Fontanillas P, Grarup N, Rivas MA, Mahajan A, Locke AE, Cingolani P, Pers TH, Viñuela A, Brown AA, Wu Y, Flannick J, Fuchsberger C, Gamazon ER, Gaulton KJ, Im HK, Teslovich TM, Blackwell TW, Bork-Jensen J, Burtt NP, Chen Y, Green T, Hartl C, Kang HM, Kumar A, Ladenvall C, Ma C, Moutsianas L, Pearson RD, Perry JR, Rayner NW, Robertson NR, Scott LJ, van de Bunt M, Eriksson JG, Jula A, Koskinen S, Lehtimäki T, Palotie A, Raitakari OT, Jacobs SB, Wessel J, Chu AY, Scott RA, Goodarzi MO, Blancher C, Buck G, Buck D, Chines PS, Gabriel S, Gjesing AP, Groves CJ, Hollensted M, Huyghe JR, Jackson AU, Jun G, Justesen JM, Mangino M, Murphy J, Neville M, Onofrio R, Small KS, Stringham HM, Trakalo J, Banks E, Carey J, Carneiro MO, DePristo M, Farjoun Y, Fennell T, Goldstein JI, Grant G, Hrabé de Angelis M, Maguire J, Neale BM, Poplin R, Purcell S, Schwarzmayr T, Shakir K, Smith JD, Strom TM, Wieland T, Lindstrom J, Brandslund I, Christensen C, Surdulescu GL, Lakka TA, Doney AS, Nilsson P, Wareham NJ, Langenberg C, Varga TV, Franks PW, Rolandsson O, Rosengren AH, Farook VS, Thameem F, Puppala S, Kumar S, Lehman DM, Jenkinson CP, Curran JE, Hale DE, Fowler SP, Arya R, DeFronzo RA, Abboud HE, Syvänen AC, Hicks PJ, Palmer ND, Ng MC, Bowden DW, Freedman BI, Esko T, Mägi R, Milani L, Mihailov E, Metspalu A, Narisu N, Kinnunen L, Bonnycastle LL, Swift A, Pasko D, Wood AR, Fadista J, Pollin TI, Barzilai N, Atzmon G, Glaser B, Thorand B, Strauch K, Peters A, Roden M, Müller-Nurasyid M, Liang L, Kriebel J, Illig T, Grallert H, Gieger C, Meisinger C, Lannfelt L, Musani SK, Griswold M, Taylor HA, Wilson G, Correa A, Oksa H, Scott WR, Afzal U, Tan ST, Loh M, Chambers JC, Sehmi J, Kooner JS, Lehne B, Cho YS, Lee JY, Han BG, Käräjämäki A, Qi Q, Qi L, Huang J, Hu FB, Melander O, Orho-Melander M, Below JE, Aguilar D, Wong TY, Liu J, Khor CC, Chia KS, Lim WY, Cheng CY, Chan E, Tai ES, Aung T, Linneberg A, Isomaa B, Meitinger T, Tuomi T, Hakaste L, Kravic J, Jørgensen ME, Lauritzen T, Deloukas P, Stirrups KE, Owen KR, Farmer AJ, Frayling TM, O'Rahilly SP, Walker M, Levy JC, Hodgkiss D, Hattersley AT, Kuulasmaa T, Stančáková A, Barroso I, Bharadwaj D, Chan J, Chandak GR, Daly MJ, Donnelly PJ, Ebrahim SB, Elliott P, Fingerlin T, Froguel P, Hu C, Jia W, Ma RC, McVean G, Park T, Prabhakaran D, Sandhu M, Scott J, Sladek R, Tandon N, Teo YY, Zeggini E, Watanabe RM, Koistinen HA, Kesaniemi YA, Uusitupa M, Spector TD, Salomaa V, Rauramaa R, Palmer CN, Prokopenko I, Morris AD, Bergman RN, Collins FS, Lind L, Ingelsson E, Tuomilehto J, Karpe F, Groop L, Jørgensen T, Hansen T, Pedersen O, Kuusisto J, Abecasis G, Bell GI, Blangero J, Cox NJ, Duggirala R, Seielstad M, Wilson JG, Dupuis J, Ripatti S, Hanis CL, Florez JC, Mohlke KL, Meigs JB, Laakso M, Morris AP, Boehnke M, Altshuler D, McCarthy MI, Gloyn AL, Lindgren CM. A Low-Frequency Inactivating AKT2 Variant Enriched in the Finnish Population Is Associated With Fasting Insulin Levels and Type 2 Diabetes Risk. Diabetes 2017; 66:2019-2032. [PMID: 28341696 PMCID: PMC5482074 DOI: 10.2337/db16-1329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2016] [Accepted: 03/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
To identify novel coding association signals and facilitate characterization of mechanisms influencing glycemic traits and type 2 diabetes risk, we analyzed 109,215 variants derived from exome array genotyping together with an additional 390,225 variants from exome sequence in up to 39,339 normoglycemic individuals from five ancestry groups. We identified a novel association between the coding variant (p.Pro50Thr) in AKT2 and fasting plasma insulin (FI), a gene in which rare fully penetrant mutations are causal for monogenic glycemic disorders. The low-frequency allele is associated with a 12% increase in FI levels. This variant is present at 1.1% frequency in Finns but virtually absent in individuals from other ancestries. Carriers of the FI-increasing allele had increased 2-h insulin values, decreased insulin sensitivity, and increased risk of type 2 diabetes (odds ratio 1.05). In cellular studies, the AKT2-Thr50 protein exhibited a partial loss of function. We extend the allelic spectrum for coding variants in AKT2 associated with disorders of glucose homeostasis and demonstrate bidirectional effects of variants within the pleckstrin homology domain of AKT2.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alisa Manning
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
- Center for Human Genetic Research, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Human Genetics Center, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX
- Department of Epidemiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
| | - Jessica Gasser
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
| | - Xueling Sim
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Taru Tukiainen
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
| | - Pierre Fontanillas
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
- 23andMe, Mountain View, CA
| | - Niels Grarup
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Manuel A. Rivas
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
| | - Anubha Mahajan
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
| | - Adam E. Locke
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
| | - Pablo Cingolani
- School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, Montreal, Canada
| | - Tune H. Pers
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Divisions of Endocrinology and Genetics and Genomics and Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Ana Viñuela
- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London, U.K
- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland
- Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Andrew A. Brown
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, U.K
- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research and KG Jebsen Center for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
| | - Ying Wu
- Department of Genetics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
| | - Jason Flannick
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
| | - Christian Fuchsberger
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
| | - Eric R. Gamazon
- Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Kyle J. Gaulton
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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- Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
| | - Tanya M. Teslovich
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
| | - Jette Bork-Jensen
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Noël P. Burtt
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
| | - Yuhui Chen
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
| | - Todd Green
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Chronic Disease Epidemiology Unit, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
| | - Claes Ladenvall
- Diabetes and Endocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Clement Ma
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
| | - Loukas Moutsianas
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
| | - Richard D. Pearson
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
| | - John R.B. Perry
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, U.K
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K
| | - N. William Rayner
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, U.K
| | - Neil R. Robertson
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
| | - Laura J. Scott
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
| | - Martijn van de Bunt
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
| | - Johan G. Eriksson
- Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Unit of General Practice, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
- Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
| | - Aarno Palotie
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
- Center for Human Genetic Research, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Olli T. Raitakari
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis, IN
- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
| | - Audrey Y. Chu
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K
| | - Mark O. Goodarzi
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
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- High-Throughput Genomics, Oxford Genomics Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
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- High-Throughput Genomics, Oxford Genomics Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
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- High-Throughput Genomics, Oxford Genomics Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
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- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Christopher J. Groves
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
| | - Anne U. Jackson
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
| | - Goo Jun
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
| | - Johanne Marie Justesen
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Massimo Mangino
- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London, U.K
| | - Jacquelyn Murphy
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
| | - Matt Neville
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
| | - Robert Onofrio
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
| | - Kerrin S. Small
- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London, U.K
| | - Heather M. Stringham
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
| | - Joseph Trakalo
- High-Throughput Genomics, Oxford Genomics Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
| | - Eric Banks
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
| | - Jason Carey
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
| | | | - Mark DePristo
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
| | - Yossi Farjoun
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
| | - Timothy Fennell
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
| | - Jacqueline I. Goldstein
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
| | - George Grant
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
| | - Martin Hrabé de Angelis
- Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Experimental Genetics, School of Life Science Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany
| | - Jared Maguire
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
| | - Benjamin M. Neale
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
| | - Ryan Poplin
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
| | - Shaun Purcell
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
- Center for Human Genetic Research, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn Institute for Genomics & Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
| | - Thomas Schwarzmayr
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Khalid Shakir
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
| | - Joshua D. Smith
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
| | - Tim M. Strom
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Thomas Wieland
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Jaana Lindstrom
- Diabetes Prevention Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Ivan Brandslund
- Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Vejle Hospital, Vejle, Denmark
| | - Cramer Christensen
- Department of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Vejle Hospital, Vejle, Denmark
| | | | - Timo A. Lakka
- Department of Physiology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Alex S.F. Doney
- Division of Cardiovascular & Diabetes Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, U.K
| | - Peter Nilsson
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Nicholas J. Wareham
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K
| | - Claudia Langenberg
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K
| | - Tibor V. Varga
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University Diabetes Centre, and Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Paul W. Franks
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University Diabetes Centre, and Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Olov Rolandsson
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Anders H. Rosengren
- Diabetes and Endocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Vidya S. Farook
- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
| | - Farook Thameem
- Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
| | - Sobha Puppala
- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
| | - Satish Kumar
- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
| | - Donna M. Lehman
- Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
| | - Christopher P. Jenkinson
- Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
- Research and Development Service, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX
| | - Joanne E. Curran
- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
| | - Daniel Esten Hale
- Department of Pediatrics, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
| | - Sharon P. Fowler
- Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
| | - Rector Arya
- Department of Pediatrics, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
| | - Ralph A. DeFronzo
- Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
| | - Hanna E. Abboud
- Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
| | - Ann-Christine Syvänen
- Molecular Medicine and Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Pamela J. Hicks
- Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
- Center for Diabetes Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
| | - Nicholette D. Palmer
- Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
- Center for Diabetes Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
| | - Maggie C.Y. Ng
- Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
- Center for Diabetes Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
| | - Donald W. Bowden
- Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
- Center for Diabetes Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
| | - Barry I. Freedman
- Section on Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
| | - Tõnu Esko
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Reedik Mägi
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Lili Milani
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | | | | | - Narisu Narisu
- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
| | - Leena Kinnunen
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Lori L. Bonnycastle
- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
| | - Amy Swift
- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
| | - Dorota Pasko
- Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, U.K
| | - Andrew R. Wood
- Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, U.K
| | - João Fadista
- Diabetes and Endocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Toni I. Pollin
- Program in Personalized and Genomic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
| | - Nir Barzilai
- Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY
| | - Gil Atzmon
- Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY
- Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
| | - Benjamin Glaser
- Endocrinology and Metabolism Service, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
| | - Barbara Thorand
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Konstantin Strauch
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
| | - Annette Peters
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung (DZHK), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
| | - Michael Roden
- Institute of Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research, Partner Düsseldorf, Germany
| | - Martina Müller-Nurasyid
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
- Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung (DZHK), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
| | - Liming Liang
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
| | - Jennifer Kriebel
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Thomas Illig
- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Hannover Unified Biobank, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
| | - Harald Grallert
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Christian Gieger
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Christa Meisinger
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Lars Lannfelt
- Geriatrics, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Solomon K. Musani
- Jackson Heart Study, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
| | - Michael Griswold
- Center of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
| | - Herman A. Taylor
- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
| | - Gregory Wilson
- College of Public Services, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS
| | - Adolfo Correa
- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
| | - Heikki Oksa
- Pirkanmaa Hospital District, Tampere, Finland
| | - William R. Scott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, U.K
| | - Uzma Afzal
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, U.K
| | - Sian-Tsung Tan
- Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, U.K
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, U.K
| | - Marie Loh
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, U.K
- Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
| | - John C. Chambers
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, U.K
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, U.K
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial College London, London, U.K
| | - Jobanpreet Sehmi
- Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, U.K
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, U.K
| | - Jaspal Singh Kooner
- Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, U.K
| | - Benjamin Lehne
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, U.K
| | - Yoon Shin Cho
- Department of Biomedical Science, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
| | - Jong-Young Lee
- Ministry of Health and Welfare, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Bok-Ghee Han
- Center for Genome Science, Korea National Research Institute of Health, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea
| | - Annemari Käräjämäki
- Vaasa Health Care Center, Vaasa, Finland
- Department of Primary Health Care, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
| | - Qibin Qi
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY
| | - Lu Qi
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
| | - Jinyan Huang
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
| | - Frank B. Hu
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
| | - Olle Melander
- Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Marju Orho-Melander
- Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease–Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Jennifer E. Below
- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
| | - David Aguilar
- Cardiovascular Division, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
| | - Tien Yin Wong
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Jianjun Liu
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Division of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
| | - Chiea-Chuen Khor
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Division of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Kee Seng Chia
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Wei Yen Lim
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Ching-Yu Cheng
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Office of Clinical Sciences, Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, Singapore
| | - Edmund Chan
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - E Shyong Tai
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, Singapore
| | - Tin Aung
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Allan Linneberg
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Experimental Research, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Bo Isomaa
- Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Social Services and Health Care, Jakobstad, Finland
| | - Thomas Meitinger
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Neuherberg, Germany
- Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung (DZHK), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
| | - Tiinamaija Tuomi
- Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Endocrinology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
| | | | - Jasmina Kravic
- Diabetes and Endocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
| | | | - Torsten Lauritzen
- Section of General Practice, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
| | - Panos Deloukas
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, U.K
| | - Kathleen E. Stirrups
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K
| | - Katharine R. Owen
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, U.K
| | - Andrew J. Farmer
- Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
| | - Timothy M. Frayling
- Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, U.K
| | - Stephen P. O'Rahilly
- Metabolic Research Laboratories, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K
| | - Mark Walker
- Institute of Cellular Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, U.K
| | - Jonathan C. Levy
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
| | - Dylan Hodgkiss
- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London, U.K
| | | | - Teemu Kuulasmaa
- Internal Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Alena Stančáková
- Internal Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Inês Barroso
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, U.K
- Metabolic Research Laboratories, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K
| | - Dwaipayan Bharadwaj
- Functional Genomics Unit, CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India
| | - Juliana Chan
- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
| | | | - Mark J. Daly
- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
| | - Peter J. Donnelly
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
| | | | - Paul Elliott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, U.K
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, Imperial College London, London, U.K
| | - Tasha Fingerlin
- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
| | - Philippe Froguel
- Genomics and Molecular Physiology, CNRS Institut de Biologie de Lille, Lille, France
| | - Cheng Hu
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China
| | - Weiping Jia
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China
| | - Ronald C.W. Ma
- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
| | - Gilean McVean
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
| | - Taesung Park
- Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | | | - Manjinder Sandhu
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, U.K
- Institute of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K
| | - James Scott
- Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, U.K
| | - Rob Sladek
- McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, Montreal, Canada
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
| | - Nikhil Tandon
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
| | - Yik Ying Teo
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Eleftheria Zeggini
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, U.K
| | - Richard M. Watanabe
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Diabetes & Obesity Research Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
| | - Heikki A. Koistinen
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Medicine and Abdominal Center, Endocrinology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Y. Antero Kesaniemi
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
| | - Matti Uusitupa
- Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Timothy D. Spector
- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London, U.K
| | - Veikko Salomaa
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Rainer Rauramaa
- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Colin N.A. Palmer
- Pat Macpherson Centre for Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics, Medical Research Institute, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, U.K
| | - Inga Prokopenko
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, U.K
| | - Andrew D. Morris
- Division for Molecular Medicine, Clinical Research Centre, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, U.K
| | - Richard N. Bergman
- Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
| | - Francis S. Collins
- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
| | - Lars Lind
- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Erik Ingelsson
- Molecular Medicine and Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
| | - Jaakko Tuomilehto
- Diabetes Prevention Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Center for Vascular Prevention, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria
- Diabetes Research Group, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait
| | - Fredrik Karpe
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, U.K
| | - Leif Groop
- Diabetes and Endocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Torben Jørgensen
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
| | - Torben Hansen
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
| | - Oluf Pedersen
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Johanna Kuusisto
- Internal Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Gonçalo Abecasis
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
| | - Graeme I. Bell
- Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
| | - John Blangero
- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
| | - Nancy J. Cox
- Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
| | | | - Mark Seielstad
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
- Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, CA
| | - James G. Wilson
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
| | - Josee Dupuis
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
- Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA
| | - Samuli Ripatti
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, U.K
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Hjelt Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Craig L. Hanis
- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
| | - Jose C. Florez
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
- Center for Human Genetic Research, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Diabetes Research Center (Diabetes Unit), Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Department of Genetics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Internal Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Diabetes Research Center (Diabetes Unit), Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, U.K
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, U.K
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
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Tachmazidou I, Süveges D, Min JL, Ritchie GRS, Steinberg J, Walter K, Iotchkova V, Schwartzentruber J, Huang J, Memari Y, McCarthy S, Crawford AA, Bombieri C, Cocca M, Farmaki AE, Gaunt TR, Jousilahti P, Kooijman MN, Lehne B, Malerba G, Männistö S, Matchan A, Medina-Gomez C, Metrustry SJ, Nag A, Ntalla I, Paternoster L, Rayner NW, Sala C, Scott WR, Shihab HA, Southam L, St Pourcain B, Traglia M, Trajanoska K, Zaza G, Zhang W, Artigas MS, Bansal N, Benn M, Chen Z, Danecek P, Lin WY, Locke A, Luan J, Manning AK, Mulas A, Sidore C, Tybjaerg-Hansen A, Varbo A, Zoledziewska M, Finan C, Hatzikotoulas K, Hendricks AE, Kemp JP, Moayyeri A, Panoutsopoulou K, Szpak M, Wilson SG, Boehnke M, Cucca F, Di Angelantonio E, Langenberg C, Lindgren C, McCarthy MI, Morris AP, Nordestgaard BG, Scott RA, Tobin MD, Wareham NJ, Burton P, Chambers JC, Smith GD, Dedoussis G, Felix JF, Franco OH, Gambaro G, Gasparini P, Hammond CJ, Hofman A, Jaddoe VWV, Kleber M, Kooner JS, Perola M, Relton C, Ring SM, Rivadeneira F, Salomaa V, Spector TD, Stegle O, Toniolo D, Uitterlinden AG, Barroso I, Greenwood CMT, Perry JRB, Walker BR, Butterworth AS, Xue Y, Durbin R, Small KS, Soranzo N, Timpson NJ, Zeggini E. Whole-Genome Sequencing Coupled to Imputation Discovers Genetic Signals for Anthropometric Traits. Am J Hum Genet 2017; 100:865-884. [PMID: 28552196 PMCID: PMC5473732 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2016] [Accepted: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Deep sequence-based imputation can enhance the discovery power of genome-wide association studies by assessing previously unexplored variation across the common- and low-frequency spectra. We applied a hybrid whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and deep imputation approach to examine the broader allelic architecture of 12 anthropometric traits associated with height, body mass, and fat distribution in up to 267,616 individuals. We report 106 genome-wide significant signals that have not been previously identified, including 9 low-frequency variants pointing to functional candidates. Of the 106 signals, 6 are in genomic regions that have not been implicated with related traits before, 28 are independent signals at previously reported regions, and 72 represent previously reported signals for a different anthropometric trait. 71% of signals reside within genes and fine mapping resolves 23 signals to one or two likely causal variants. We confirm genetic overlap between human monogenic and polygenic anthropometric traits and find signal enrichment in cis expression QTLs in relevant tissues. Our results highlight the potential of WGS strategies to enhance biologically relevant discoveries across the frequency spectrum.
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- Ioanna Tachmazidou
- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK; Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences & Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4UX, UK; MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4UX, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK; European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, UK
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- Boston VA Research Institute, Boston, MA 02130, USA
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK; BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, UK
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- Department of Neurological, Biomedical and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona 37134, Italy
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- Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste 34100, Italy
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- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Athens 17671, Greece
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands; Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Department of Neurological, Biomedical and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona 37134, Italy
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- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands; Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK; Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK; Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan 20132, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex UB1 3EU, UK
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK; Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen 6500, the Netherlands
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- Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan 20132, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands; Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
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- Renal Unit, Department of Medicine, Verona University Hospital, Verona 37126, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex UB1 3EU, UK
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Center for Human Genetics Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB-CNR), Cagliari 09100, Italy; Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari 07100, Italy
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB-CNR), Cagliari 09100, Italy
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Faculty of Population Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK; Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO 80204, USA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK; University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK; Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London NW1 2DA, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK; School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia; Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB-CNR), Cagliari 09100, Italy; Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari 07100, Italy
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- Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK; Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, The Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK; Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK; Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK; Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GL, UK; Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Tartumaa 51010, Estonia
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- D2K Research Group, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex UB1 3EU, UK; Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W2 1NY, UK
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Athens 17671, Greece
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands; Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
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- Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Columbus-Gemelli University Hospital, Catholic University, Rome 00168, Italy
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- Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste 34100, Italy; Medical Genetics, Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo", Trieste 34100, Italy
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands; Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
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- Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim 68167, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex UB1 3EU, UK; Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W2 1NY, UK; National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland; Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Tartumaa 51010, Estonia; Institute for Molecular Medicine (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00290, Finland
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands; Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
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- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan 20132, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands; Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK; University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada; Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 1A2, Canada; Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montréal, QC H2W 1S6, Canada
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK; MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, UK
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- Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0AH, UK
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK.
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Graff M, Scott RA, Justice AE, Young KL, Feitosa MF, Barata L, Winkler TW, Chu AY, Mahajan A, Hadley D, Xue L, Workalemahu T, Heard-Costa NL, den Hoed M, Ahluwalia TS, Qi Q, Ngwa JS, Renström F, Quaye L, Eicher JD, Hayes JE, Cornelis M, Kutalik Z, Lim E, Luan J, Huffman JE, Zhang W, Zhao W, Griffin PJ, Haller T, Ahmad S, Marques-Vidal PM, Bien S, Yengo L, Teumer A, Smith AV, Kumari M, Harder MN, Justesen JM, Kleber ME, Hollensted M, Lohman K, Rivera NV, Whitfield JB, Zhao JH, Stringham HM, Lyytikäinen LP, Huppertz C, Willemsen G, Peyrot WJ, Wu Y, Kristiansson K, Demirkan A, Fornage M, Hassinen M, Bielak LF, Cadby G, Tanaka T, Mägi R, van der Most PJ, Jackson AU, Bragg-Gresham JL, Vitart V, Marten J, Navarro P, Bellis C, Pasko D, Johansson Å, Snitker S, Cheng YC, Eriksson J, Lim U, Aadahl M, Adair LS, Amin N, Balkau B, Auvinen J, Beilby J, Bergman RN, Bergmann S, Bertoni AG, Blangero J, Bonnefond A, Bonnycastle LL, Borja JB, Brage S, Busonero F, Buyske S, Campbell H, Chines PS, Collins FS, Corre T, Smith GD, Delgado GE, Dueker N, Dörr M, Ebeling T, Eiriksdottir G, Esko T, Faul JD, Fu M, Færch K, Gieger C, Gläser S, Gong J, Gordon-Larsen P, Grallert H, Grammer TB, Grarup N, van Grootheest G, Harald K, Hastie ND, Havulinna AS, Hernandez D, Hindorff L, Hocking LJ, Holmens OL, Holzapfel C, Hottenga JJ, Huang J, Huang T, Hui J, Huth C, Hutri-Kähönen N, James AL, Jansson JO, Jhun MA, Juonala M, Kinnunen L, Koistinen HA, Kolcic I, Komulainen P, Kuusisto J, Kvaløy K, Kähönen M, Lakka TA, Launer LJ, Lehne B, Lindgren CM, Lorentzon M, Luben R, Marre M, Milaneschi Y, Monda KL, Montgomery GW, De Moor MHM, Mulas A, Müller-Nurasyid M, Musk AW, Männikkö R, Männistö S, Narisu N, Nauck M, Nettleton JA, Nolte IM, Oldehinkel AJ, Olden M, Ong KK, Padmanabhan S, Paternoster L, Perez J, Perola M, Peters A, Peters U, Peyser PA, Prokopenko I, Puolijoki H, Raitakari OT, Rankinen T, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Rawal R, Ridker PM, Rose LM, Rudan I, Sarti C, Sarzynski MA, Savonen K, Scott WR, Sanna S, Shuldiner AR, Sidney S, Silbernagel G, Smith BH, Smith JA, Snieder H, Stančáková A, Sternfeld B, Swift AJ, Tammelin T, Tan ST, Thorand B, Thuillier D, Vandenput L, Vestergaard H, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk JV, Vohl MC, Völker U, Waeber G, Walker M, Wild S, Wong A, Wright AF, Zillikens MC, Zubair N, Haiman CA, Lemarchand L, Gyllensten U, Ohlsson C, Hofman A, Rivadeneira F, Uitterlinden AG, Pérusse L, Wilson JF, Hayward C, Polasek O, Cucca F, Hveem K, Hartman CA, Tönjes A, Bandinelli S, Palmer LJ, Kardia SLR, Rauramaa R, Sørensen TIA, Tuomilehto J, Salomaa V, Penninx BWJH, de Geus EJC, Boomsma DI, Lehtimäki T, Mangino M, Laakso M, Bouchard C, Martin NG, Kuh D, Liu Y, Linneberg A, März W, Strauch K, Kivimäki M, Harris TB, Gudnason V, Völzke H, Qi L, Järvelin MR, Chambers JC, Kooner JS, Froguel P, Kooperberg C, Vollenweider P, Hallmans G, Hansen T, Pedersen O, Metspalu A, Wareham NJ, Langenberg C, Weir DR, Porteous DJ, Boerwinkle E, Chasman DI, Abecasis GR, Barroso I, McCarthy MI, Frayling TM, O’Connell JR, van Duijn CM, Boehnke M, Heid IM, Mohlke KL, Strachan DP, Fox CS, Liu CT, Hirschhorn JN, Klein RJ, Johnson AD, Borecki IB, Franks PW, North KE, Cupples LA, Loos RJF, Kilpeläinen TO. Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity - A meta-analysis of 200,452 adults. PLoS Genet 2017; 13:e1006528. [PMID: 28448500 PMCID: PMC5407576 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2016] [Accepted: 12/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Physical activity (PA) may modify the genetic effects that give rise to increased risk of obesity. To identify adiposity loci whose effects are modified by PA, we performed genome-wide interaction meta-analyses of BMI and BMI-adjusted waist circumference and waist-hip ratio from up to 200,452 adults of European (n = 180,423) or other ancestry (n = 20,029). We standardized PA by categorizing it into a dichotomous variable where, on average, 23% of participants were categorized as inactive and 77% as physically active. While we replicate the interaction with PA for the strongest known obesity-risk locus in the FTO gene, of which the effect is attenuated by ~30% in physically active individuals compared to inactive individuals, we do not identify additional loci that are sensitive to PA. In additional genome-wide meta-analyses adjusting for PA and interaction with PA, we identify 11 novel adiposity loci, suggesting that accounting for PA or other environmental factors that contribute to variation in adiposity may facilitate gene discovery.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mariaelisa Graff
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Robert A. Scott
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Anne E. Justice
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Kristin L. Young
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Mary F. Feitosa
- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
| | - Llilda Barata
- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
| | - Thomas W. Winkler
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
| | - Audrey Y. Chu
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Anubha Mahajan
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
| | - David Hadley
- Division of Population Health Sciences and Education, St. George's, University of London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Luting Xue
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Tsegaselassie Workalemahu
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Nancy L. Heard-Costa
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Marcel den Hoed
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark
| | - Qibin Qi
- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
| | - Julius S. Ngwa
- Howard University, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington DC, United States of America
| | - Frida Renström
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Biobank Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Lydia Quaye
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - John D. Eicher
- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, The Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - James E. Hayes
- Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
| | - Marilyn Cornelis
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Zoltan Kutalik
- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Elise Lim
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Jian’an Luan
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Jennifer E. Huffman
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - Weihua Zhang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital HNS Trust, Middlesex, United Kingdom
| | - Wei Zhao
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Paula J. Griffin
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Toomas Haller
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Shafqat Ahmad
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Pedro M. Marques-Vidal
- Department of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Stephanie Bien
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
| | - Loic Yengo
- University of Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur de Lille, UMR 8199 - EGID, Lille, France
| | - Alexander Teumer
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Albert Vernon Smith
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Meena Kumari
- ISER, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom
| | - Marie Neergaard Harder
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Johanne Marie Justesen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Marcus E. Kleber
- Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Institute of Nutrition, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
| | - Mette Hollensted
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Kurt Lohman
- Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Natalia V. Rivera
- Karolinska Institutet, Respiratory Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - John B. Whitfield
- Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
| | - Jing Hua Zhao
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Heather M. Stringham
- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
| | - Charlotte Huppertz
- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- EMGO+ Institute, Vrije Universiteit & VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Gonneke Willemsen
- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- EMGO+ Institute, Vrije Universiteit & VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Wouter J. Peyrot
- Department of Psychiatry, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center/GGZ InGeest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Ying Wu
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Kati Kristiansson
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Health, Helsinki, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Ayse Demirkan
- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Myriam Fornage
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
| | - Maija Hassinen
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Lawrence F. Bielak
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Gemma Cadby
- Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Toshiko Tanaka
- Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Reedik Mägi
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Peter J. van der Most
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Anne U. Jackson
- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham
- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Veronique Vitart
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - Jonathan Marten
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - Pau Navarro
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - Claire Bellis
- Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research of Singapore, Singapore
- Genomics Research Centre, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| | - Dorota Pasko
- Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
| | - Åsa Johansson
- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Søren Snitker
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Yu-Ching Cheng
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Joel Eriksson
- Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
| | - Unhee Lim
- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
| | - Mette Aadahl
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Linda S. Adair
- Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Najaf Amin
- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Beverley Balkau
- INSERM U-1018, CESP, Renal and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, UVSQ-UPS, Villejuif, France
| | - Juha Auvinen
- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
| | - John Beilby
- Busselton Population Medical Research Institute, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
- PathWest Laboratory Medicine of WA, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
- School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Richard N. Bergman
- Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
| | - Sven Bergmann
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Alain G. Bertoni
- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - John Blangero
- Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
| | - Amélie Bonnefond
- University of Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur de Lille, UMR 8199 - EGID, Lille, France
| | - Lori L. Bonnycastle
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Judith B. Borja
- USC-Office of Population Studies Foundation, Inc., University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines
- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines
| | - Søren Brage
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Fabio Busonero
- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB), Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR), Cittadella Universitaria di Monserrato, Monserrato, Italy
| | - Steve Buyske
- Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
- Department of Statistics and Biostatistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
| | - Harry Campbell
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, Edinburgh, Scotland
| | - Peter S. Chines
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Francis S. Collins
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Tanguy Corre
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - George Davey Smith
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit & School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
| | - Graciela E. Delgado
- Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
| | - Nicole Dueker
- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Marcus Dörr
- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Tapani Ebeling
- Department of Medicine, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
| | | | - Tõnu Esko
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Jessica D. Faul
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Mao Fu
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
| | | | - Christian Gieger
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Sven Gläser
- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Jian Gong
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
| | - Penny Gordon-Larsen
- Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Harald Grallert
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Tanja B. Grammer
- Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
| | - Niels Grarup
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Gerard van Grootheest
- Department of Psychiatry, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center/GGZ InGeest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Kennet Harald
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Health, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Nicholas D. Hastie
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - Aki S. Havulinna
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Health, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Dena Hernandez
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Lucia Hindorff
- Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Lynne J. Hocking
- Musculoskeletal Research Programme, Division of Applied Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Generation Scotland, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | | | - Christina Holzapfel
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute for Nutritional Medicine, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - Jouke Jan Hottenga
- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- NCA Institute, VU University & VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Jie Huang
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Tao Huang
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Jennie Hui
- Busselton Population Medical Research Institute, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
- PathWest Laboratory Medicine of WA, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
- School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Cornelia Huth
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Nina Hutri-Kähönen
- Department of Pediatrics, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
| | - Alan L. James
- Busselton Population Medical Research Institute, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
- Department of Pulmonary Physiology and Sleep Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
- School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
| | - John-Olov Jansson
- Department of Physiology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
| | - Min A. Jhun
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Markus Juonala
- Department of Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Division of Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
| | - Leena Kinnunen
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Health, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Heikki A. Koistinen
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Health, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Medicine and Abdominal Center: Endocrinology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Ivana Kolcic
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | | | - Johanna Kuusisto
- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Kirsti Kvaløy
- HUNT Research Centre, Department of Public Health and General Practice, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Levanger, Norway
| | - Mika Kähönen
- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
| | - Timo A. Lakka
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine, Physiology, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Finland
| | - Lenore J. Launer
- Neuroepidemiology Section, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Benjamin Lehne
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Cecilia M. Lindgren
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- The Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
| | - Mattias Lorentzon
- Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Geriatric Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden
| | - Robert Luben
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Michel Marre
- INSERM U-1138, Équipe 2: Pathophysiology and Therapeutics of Vascular and Renal diseases Related to Diabetes, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Paris, France
- Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Nutrition, and Metabolic Diseases, Bichat Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France
| | - Yuri Milaneschi
- Department of Psychiatry, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center/GGZ InGeest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Keri L. Monda
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Center for Observational Research, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, United States of America
| | - Grant W. Montgomery
- Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
| | - Marleen H. M. De Moor
- EMGO+ Institute, Vrije Universiteit & VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Section of Clinical Child and Family Studies, Department of Educational and Family Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Antonella Mulas
- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB), Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR), Cittadella Universitaria di Monserrato, Monserrato, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
| | - Martina Müller-Nurasyid
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Department of Medicine I, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
| | - A. W. Musk
- Busselton Population Medical Research Institute, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
- School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Reija Männikkö
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Satu Männistö
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Health, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Narisu Narisu
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Matthias Nauck
- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Jennifer A. Nettleton
- Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
| | - Ilja M. Nolte
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Albertine J. Oldehinkel
- Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation (ICPE), University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Matthias Olden
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
| | - Ken K. Ong
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Sandosh Padmanabhan
- Generation Scotland, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
| | - Lavinia Paternoster
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit & School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
| | - Jeremiah Perez
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Markus Perola
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Health, Helsinki, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- University of Tartu, Estonian Genome Centre, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Annette Peters
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
| | - Ulrike Peters
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
| | - Patricia A. Peyser
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Inga Prokopenko
- Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
| | | | - Olli T. Raitakari
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
| | - Tuomo Rankinen
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
| | - Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
| | - Rajesh Rawal
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Paul M. Ridker
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Lynda M. Rose
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Igor Rudan
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, Edinburgh, Scotland
| | - Cinzia Sarti
- Social Services and Health Care Department, City of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Mark A. Sarzynski
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
| | - Kai Savonen
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
| | - William R. Scott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Serena Sanna
- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB), Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR), Cittadella Universitaria di Monserrato, Monserrato, Italy
| | - Alan R. Shuldiner
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, United States of America
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- Division of Angiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University Graz, Austria
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- Generation Scotland, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Scotland
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Alena Stančáková
- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Barbara Sternfeld
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, United States of America
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- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- LIKES Research Center for Sport and Health Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
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- University of Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur de Lille, UMR 8199 - EGID, Lille, France
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- Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark
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- Department of Endocrinology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods, Quebec, Canada
- School of Nutrition, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
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- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
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- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Kinesiology, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
| | - James F. Wilson
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, Edinburgh, Scotland
| | - Caroline Hayward
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - Ozren Polasek
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - Francesco Cucca
- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB), Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR), Cittadella Universitaria di Monserrato, Monserrato, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
| | - Kristian Hveem
- HUNT Research Centre, Department of Public Health and General Practice, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Levanger, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- University of Leipzig, Medical Department, Leipzig, Germany
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- School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Rainer Rauramaa
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Thorkild I. A. Sørensen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit & School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals, The Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Health, Helsinki, Finland
- Centre for Vascular Prevention, Danube-University Krems, Krems, Austria
- Diabetes Research Group, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Health, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychiatry, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center/GGZ InGeest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- EMGO+ Institute, Vrije Universiteit & VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- NCA Institute, VU University & VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St. Thomas' Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
| | - Markku Laakso
- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Claude Bouchard
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
| | - Nicholas G. Martin
- Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
| | - Diana Kuh
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom
| | - Yongmei Liu
- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Allan Linneberg
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Experimental Research, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Winfried März
- Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Synlab Academy, Synlab Services LLC, Mannheim, Germany
- Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
| | - Konstantin Strauch
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
| | - Mika Kivimäki
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Tamara B. Harris
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Vilmundur Gudnason
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Henry Völzke
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Lu Qi
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - John C. Chambers
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital HNS Trust, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
| | - Jaspal S. Kooner
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital HNS Trust, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
| | - Philippe Froguel
- University of Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur de Lille, UMR 8199 - EGID, Lille, France
- Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
| | - Charles Kooperberg
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
| | - Peter Vollenweider
- Department of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Göran Hallmans
- Department of Biobank Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Torben Hansen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Oluf Pedersen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | | | - Nicholas J. Wareham
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Claudia Langenberg
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - David R. Weir
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - David J. Porteous
- Generation Scotland, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - Eric Boerwinkle
- Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
| | - Daniel I. Chasman
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | | | | | | | - Gonçalo R. Abecasis
- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Inês Barroso
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
- NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Mark I. McCarthy
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom
| | - Timothy M. Frayling
- Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
| | - Jeffrey R. O’Connell
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Cornelia M. van Duijn
- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Center of Medical Systems Biology, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Michael Boehnke
- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Iris M. Heid
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
| | - Karen L. Mohlke
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - David P. Strachan
- Population Health Research Institute, St. George's University of London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Caroline S. Fox
- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, The Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Ching-Ti Liu
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Joel N. Hirschhorn
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Divisions of Endocrinology and Genetics and Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Robert J. Klein
- Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
| | - Andrew D. Johnson
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, The Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Ingrid B. Borecki
- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
| | - Paul W. Franks
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Kari E. North
- Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - L. Adrienne Cupples
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Ruth J. F. Loos
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- The Department of Preventive Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
| | - Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- The Department of Preventive Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
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Wahl S, Drong A, Lehne B, Loh M, Scott WR, Kunze S, Tsai PC, Ried JS, Zhang W, Yang Y, Tan S, Fiorito G, Franke L, Guarrera S, Kasela S, Kriebel J, Richmond RC, Adamo M, Afzal U, Ala-Korpela M, Albetti B, Ammerpohl O, Apperley JF, Beekman M, Bertazzi PA, Black SL, Blancher C, Bonder MJ, Brosch M, Carstensen-Kirberg M, de Craen AJM, de Lusignan S, Dehghan A, Elkalaawy M, Fischer K, Franco OH, Gaunt TR, Hampe J, Hashemi M, Isaacs A, Jenkinson A, Jha S, Kato N, Krogh V, Laffan M, Meisinger C, Meitinger T, Mok ZY, Motta V, Ng HK, Nikolakopoulou Z, Nteliopoulos G, Panico S, Pervjakova N, Prokisch H, Rathmann W, Roden M, Rota F, Rozario MA, Sandling JK, Schafmayer C, Schramm K, Siebert R, Slagboom PE, Soininen P, Stolk L, Strauch K, Tai ES, Tarantini L, Thorand B, Tigchelaar EF, Tumino R, Uitterlinden AG, van Duijn C, van Meurs JBJ, Vineis P, Wickremasinghe AR, Wijmenga C, Yang TP, Yuan W, Zhernakova A, Batterham RL, Smith GD, Deloukas P, Heijmans BT, Herder C, Hofman A, Lindgren CM, Milani L, van der Harst P, Peters A, Illig T, Relton CL, Waldenberger M, Järvelin MR, Bollati V, Soong R, Spector TD, Scott J, McCarthy MI, Elliott P, Bell JT, Matullo G, Gieger C, Kooner JS, Grallert H, Chambers JC. Epigenome-wide association study of body mass index, and the adverse outcomes of adiposity. Nature 2016; 541:81-86. [PMID: 28002404 PMCID: PMC5570525 DOI: 10.1038/nature20784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 562] [Impact Index Per Article: 70.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2015] [Accepted: 11/10/2016] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
Overweight and obesity affect ~1.5 billion people worldwide, and are major risk factors for type-2 diabetes (T2D), cardiovascular disease and related metabolic and inflammatory disturbances.1,2 Although the mechanisms linking adiposity to its clinical sequelae are poorly understood, recent studies suggest that adiposity may influence DNA methylation,3–6 a key regulator of gene expression and molecular phenotype.7 Here we use epigenome-wide association to show that body mass index (BMI, a key measure of adiposity) is associated with widespread changes in DNA methylation (187 genetic loci at P<1x10-7, range P=9.2x10-8 to 6.0x10-46; N=10,261 samples). Genetic association analyses demonstrate that the alterations in DNA methylation are predominantly the consequence of adiposity, rather than the cause. We find the methylation loci are enriched for functional genomic features in multiple tissues (P<0.05), and show that sentinel methylation markers identify gene expression signatures at 38 loci (P<9.0x10-6, range P=5.5x10-6 to 6.1x10-35, N=1,785 samples). The methylation loci identified highlight genes involved in lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, substrate transport, and inflammatory pathways. Finally, we show that the disturbances in DNA methylation predict future type-2 diabetes (relative risk per 1SD increase in Methylation Risk Score: 2.3 [2.07-2.56]; P=1.1x10-54). Our results provide new insights into the biologic pathways influenced by adiposity, and may enable development of new strategies for prediction and prevention of type-2 diabetes and other adverse clinical consequences of obesity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Simone Wahl
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Alexander Drong
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
| | - Benjamin Lehne
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK
| | - Marie Loh
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK.,Institute of Health Sciences, P.O. Box 5000, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland.,Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine (TLGM), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 8A Biomedical Grove, Immunos, Level 5, Singapore 138648, Singapore
| | - William R Scott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK.,National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
| | - Sonja Kunze
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Pei-Chien Tsai
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
| | - Janina S Ried
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Weihua Zhang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK.,Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex UB1 3HW, UK
| | - Youwen Yang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK
| | - Sili Tan
- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Giovanni Fiorito
- Human Genetics Foundation-Torino, Torino, Italy.,Medical Sciences Department, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
| | - Lude Franke
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Simonetta Guarrera
- Human Genetics Foundation-Torino, Torino, Italy.,Medical Sciences Department, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
| | - Silva Kasela
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Riia 23, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
| | - Jennifer Kriebel
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Rebecca C Richmond
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
| | - Marco Adamo
- UCLH Bariatric Centre for Weight Loss, Weight Management and Metabolic and Endocrine Surgery, University College London Hospitals, Ground Floor West Wing, 250 Euston Road, London NW1 2PG, UK
| | - Uzma Afzal
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK.,Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex UB1 3HW, UK
| | - Mika Ala-Korpela
- Computational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu and Biocenter Oulu, Oulu, Finland.,NMR Metabolomics Laboratory, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.,Computational Medicine, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol and Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Benedetta Albetti
- EPIGET Lab, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano and Fondazione IRCCS Ca'Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
| | - Ole Ammerpohl
- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel Campus, Kiel, Germany
| | - Jane F Apperley
- Centre for Haematology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, London W12 0NN, UK
| | - Marian Beekman
- Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2333 ZC, The Netherlands
| | - Pier Alberto Bertazzi
- EPIGET Lab, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano and Fondazione IRCCS Ca'Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
| | - S Lucas Black
- Section of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
| | - Christine Blancher
- High Throughput Genomics-Oxford Genomic Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
| | - Marc-Jan Bonder
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Mario Brosch
- Medical Department 1, University Hospital of the Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
| | - Maren Carstensen-Kirberg
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
| | - Anton J M de Craen
- Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands
| | - Simon de Lusignan
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7PX, UK
| | - Abbas Dehghan
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Mohamed Elkalaawy
- UCLH Bariatric Centre for Weight Loss, Weight Management and Metabolic and Endocrine Surgery, University College London Hospitals, Ground Floor West Wing, 250 Euston Road, London NW1 2PG, UK.,Clinical and Experimental Surgery Department, Medical Research Institute, University of Alexandria, Hadara, Alexandria 21561, Egypt
| | - Krista Fischer
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
| | - Oscar H Franco
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Tom R Gaunt
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
| | - Jochen Hampe
- Medical Department 1, University Hospital of the Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
| | - Majid Hashemi
- UCLH Bariatric Centre for Weight Loss, Weight Management and Metabolic and Endocrine Surgery, University College London Hospitals, Ground Floor West Wing, 250 Euston Road, London NW1 2PG, UK
| | - Aaron Isaacs
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Andrew Jenkinson
- UCLH Bariatric Centre for Weight Loss, Weight Management and Metabolic and Endocrine Surgery, University College London Hospitals, Ground Floor West Wing, 250 Euston Road, London NW1 2PG, UK
| | - Sujeet Jha
- Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity, Max Healthcare, New Delhi 110 017, India
| | - Norihiro Kato
- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo 1628655, Japan
| | - Vittorio Krogh
- Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCSS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano, Italy
| | - Michael Laffan
- Centre for Haematology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University Munich, München, Germany.,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- EPIGET Lab, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano and Fondazione IRCCS Ca'Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Vascular Biology Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London SW3 6LY, UK
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- Centre for Haematology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Dipartmento Di Medicina Clinica E Chirurgia Federio II University, Naples, Italy
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Riia 23, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University Munich, München, Germany
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- Institute for Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.,Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- EPIGET Lab, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano and Fondazione IRCCS Ca'Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.,Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Medicine and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 751 44 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel Campus, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University Munich, München, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel Campus, Kiel, Germany.,Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, D-89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2333 ZC, The Netherlands
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- Computational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu and Biocenter Oulu, Oulu, Finland.,NMR Metabolomics Laboratory, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore.,Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore.,Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore 169857, Singapore
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- EPIGET Lab, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano and Fondazione IRCCS Ca'Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, 'Civile-M.P. Arezzo' Hospital, ASP 7, Ragusa, Italy
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- Departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Human Genetics Foundation-Torino, Torino, Italy.,Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, PO Box 6, Thalagolla Road, Ragama 11010, Sri Lanka
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK.,The Institute of Cancer Research, Surrey SM2 5NG, UK
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
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- UCLH Bariatric Centre for Weight Loss, Weight Management and Metabolic and Endocrine Surgery, University College London Hospitals, Ground Floor West Wing, 250 Euston Road, London NW1 2PG, UK.,Centre for Obesity Research, Rayne Institute, Department of Medicine, University College London, London WC1E 6JJ, UK
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.,William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK.,Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2333 ZC, The Netherlands
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- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK.,Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands.,University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands.,Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, ICIN-Netherlands Heart Institute, 3511 GC Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany.,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Hannover Unified Biobank, Hannover Medical School, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 15, D-30625 Hanover, Germany.,Institute of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, D-30625 Hanover, Germany
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Health Protection Agency (HPE) Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.,Biocenter Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, Aapistie 5A, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland.,Center for Life Course Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, P.O. Box 5000, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland.,Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Kajaanintie 50, PO Box 20, FI-90220 Oulu, 90029 OYS, Finland
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- EPIGET Lab, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano and Fondazione IRCCS Ca'Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Department of Pathology, National University Hospital, Singapore
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK.,Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK.,Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W12 0HS, UK
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- Human Genetics Foundation-Torino, Torino, Italy.,Medical Sciences Department, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK.,Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex UB1 3HW, UK.,Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W12 0HS, UK
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK.,Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex UB1 3HW, UK.,Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W12 0HS, UK.,Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Zhang W, Jernerén F, Lehne BC, Chen MH, Luben RN, Johnston C, Elshorbagy A, Eppinga RN, Scott WR, Adeyeye E, Scott J, Böger RH, Khaw KT, van der Harst P, Wareham NJ, Vasan RS, Chambers JC, Refsum H, Kooner JS. Genome-wide association reveals that common genetic variation in the kallikrein-kinin system is associated with serum L-arginine levels. Thromb Haemost 2016; 116:1041-1049. [PMID: 27656708 DOI: 10.1160/th16-02-0151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2016] [Accepted: 09/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
L-arginine is the essential precursor of nitric oxide, and is involved in multiple key physiological processes, including vascular and immune function. The genetic regulation of blood L-arginine levels is largely unknown. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to identify genetic factors determining serum L-arginine levels, amongst 901 Europeans and 1,394 Indian Asians. We show that common genetic variations at the KLKB1 and F12 loci are strongly associated with serum L-arginine levels. The G allele of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs71640036 (T/G) in KLKB1 is associated with lower serum L-arginine concentrations (10 µmol/l per allele copy, p=1×10-24), while allele T of rs2545801 (T/C) near the F12 gene is associated with lower serum L-arginine levels (7 µmol/l per allele copy, p=7×10-12). Together these two loci explain 7 % of the total variance in serum L-arginine concentrations. The associations at both loci were replicated in independent cohorts with plasma L-arginine measurements (p<0.004). The two sentinel SNPs are in nearly complete LD with the nonsynonymous SNP rs3733402 at KLKB1 and the 5'-UTR SNP rs1801020 at F12, respectively. SNPs at both loci are associated with blood pressure. Our findings provide new insight into the genetic regulation of L-arginine and its potential relationship with cardiovascular risk.
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- Weihua Zhang
- Weihua Zhang, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK, Tel.: +44 20 8242 5926, Fax: +44 20 8967 5007, E-mail:
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Winkler TW, Justice AE, Graff M, Barata L, Feitosa MF, Chu S, Czajkowski J, Esko T, Fall T, Kilpeläinen TO, Lu Y, Mägi R, Mihailov E, Pers TH, Rüeger S, Teumer A, Ehret GB, Ferreira T, Heard-Costa NL, Karjalainen J, Lagou V, Mahajan A, Neinast MD, Prokopenko I, Simino J, Teslovich TM, Jansen R, Westra HJ, White CC, Absher D, Ahluwalia TS, Ahmad S, Albrecht E, Alves AC, Bragg-Gresham JL, de Craen AJM, Bis JC, Bonnefond A, Boucher G, Cadby G, Cheng YC, Chiang CWK, Delgado G, Demirkan A, Dueker N, Eklund N, Eiriksdottir G, Eriksson J, Feenstra B, Fischer K, Frau F, Galesloot TE, Geller F, Goel A, Gorski M, Grammer TB, Gustafsson S, Haitjema S, Hottenga JJ, Huffman JE, Jackson AU, Jacobs KB, Johansson Å, Kaakinen M, Kleber ME, Lahti J, Mateo Leach I, Lehne B, Liu Y, Lo KS, Lorentzon M, Luan J, Madden PAF, Mangino M, McKnight B, Medina-Gomez C, Monda KL, Montasser ME, Müller G, Müller-Nurasyid M, Nolte IM, Panoutsopoulou K, Pascoe L, Paternoster L, Rayner NW, Renström F, Rizzi F, Rose LM, Ryan KA, Salo P, Sanna S, Scharnagl H, Shi J, Smith AV, Southam L, Stančáková A, Steinthorsdottir V, Strawbridge RJ, Sung YJ, Tachmazidou I, Tanaka T, Thorleifsson G, Trompet S, Pervjakova N, Tyrer JP, Vandenput L, van der Laan SW, van der Velde N, van Setten J, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk JV, Verweij N, Vlachopoulou E, Waite LL, Wang SR, Wang Z, Wild SH, Willenborg C, Wilson JF, Wong A, Yang J, Yengo L, Yerges-Armstrong LM, Yu L, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Andersson EA, Bakker SJL, Baldassarre D, Banasik K, Barcella M, Barlassina C, Bellis C, Benaglio P, Blangero J, Blüher M, Bonnet F, Bonnycastle LL, Boyd HA, Bruinenberg M, Buchman AS, Campbell H, Chen YDI, Chines PS, Claudi-Boehm S, Cole J, Collins FS, de Geus EJC, de Groot LCPGM, Dimitriou M, Duan J, Enroth S, Eury E, Farmaki AE, Forouhi NG, Friedrich N, Gejman PV, Gigante B, Glorioso N, Go AS, Gottesman O, Gräßler J, Grallert H, Grarup N, Gu YM, Broer L, Ham AC, Hansen T, Harris TB, Hartman CA, Hassinen M, Hastie N, Hattersley AT, Heath AC, Henders AK, Hernandez D, Hillege H, Holmen O, Hovingh KG, Hui J, Husemoen LL, Hutri-Kähönen N, Hysi PG, Illig T, De Jager PL, Jalilzadeh S, Jørgensen T, Jukema JW, Juonala M, Kanoni S, Karaleftheri M, Khaw KT, Kinnunen L, Kittner SJ, Koenig W, Kolcic I, Kovacs P, Krarup NT, Kratzer W, Krüger J, Kuh D, Kumari M, Kyriakou T, Langenberg C, Lannfelt L, Lanzani C, Lotay V, Launer LJ, Leander K, Lindström J, Linneberg A, Liu YP, Lobbens S, Luben R, Lyssenko V, Männistö S, Magnusson PK, McArdle WL, Menni C, Merger S, Milani L, Montgomery GW, Morris AP, Narisu N, Nelis M, Ong KK, Palotie A, Pérusse L, Pichler I, Pilia MG, Pouta A, Rheinberger M, Ribel-Madsen R, Richards M, Rice KM, Rice TK, Rivolta C, Salomaa V, Sanders AR, Sarzynski MA, Scholtens S, Scott RA, Scott WR, Sebert S, Sengupta S, Sennblad B, Seufferlein T, Silveira A, Slagboom PE, Smit JH, Sparsø TH, Stirrups K, Stolk RP, Stringham HM, Swertz MA, Swift AJ, Syvänen AC, Tan ST, Thorand B, Tönjes A, Tremblay A, Tsafantakis E, van der Most PJ, Völker U, Vohl MC, Vonk JM, Waldenberger M, Walker RW, Wennauer R, Widén E, Willemsen G, Wilsgaard T, Wright AF, Zillikens MC, van Dijk SC, van Schoor NM, Asselbergs FW, de Bakker PIW, Beckmann JS, Beilby J, Bennett DA, Bergman RN, Bergmann S, Böger CA, Boehm BO, Boerwinkle E, Boomsma DI, Bornstein SR, Bottinger EP, Bouchard C, Chambers JC, Chanock SJ, Chasman DI, Cucca F, Cusi D, Dedoussis G, Erdmann J, Eriksson JG, Evans DA, de Faire U, Farrall M, Ferrucci L, Ford I, Franke L, Franks PW, Froguel P, Gansevoort RT, Gieger C, Grönberg H, Gudnason V, Gyllensten U, Hall P, Hamsten A, van der Harst P, Hayward C, Heliövaara M, Hengstenberg C, Hicks AA, Hingorani A, Hofman A, Hu F, Huikuri HV, Hveem K, James AL, Jordan JM, Jula A, Kähönen M, Kajantie E, Kathiresan S, Kiemeney LALM, Kivimaki M, Knekt PB, Koistinen HA, Kooner JS, Koskinen S, Kuusisto J, Maerz W, Martin NG, Laakso M, Lakka TA, Lehtimäki T, Lettre G, Levinson DF, Lind L, Lokki ML, Mäntyselkä P, Melbye M, Metspalu A, Mitchell BD, Moll FL, Murray JC, Musk AW, Nieminen MS, Njølstad I, Ohlsson C, Oldehinkel AJ, Oostra BA, Palmer LJ, Pankow JS, Pasterkamp G, Pedersen NL, Pedersen O, Penninx BW, Perola M, Peters A, Polašek O, Pramstaller PP, Psaty BM, Qi L, Quertermous T, Raitakari OT, Rankinen T, Rauramaa R, Ridker PM, Rioux JD, Rivadeneira F, Rotter JI, Rudan I, den Ruijter HM, Saltevo J, Sattar N, Schunkert H, Schwarz PEH, Shuldiner AR, Sinisalo J, Snieder H, Sørensen TIA, Spector TD, Staessen JA, Stefania B, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stumvoll M, Tardif JC, Tremoli E, Tuomilehto J, Uitterlinden AG, Uusitupa M, Verbeek ALM, Vermeulen SH, Viikari JS, Vitart V, Völzke H, Vollenweider P, Waeber G, Walker M, Wallaschofski H, Wareham NJ, Watkins H, Zeggini E, Chakravarti A, Clegg DJ, Cupples LA, Gordon-Larsen P, Jaquish CE, Rao DC, Abecasis GR, Assimes TL, Barroso I, Berndt SI, Boehnke M, Deloukas P, Fox CS, Groop LC, Hunter DJ, Ingelsson E, Kaplan RC, McCarthy MI, Mohlke KL, O'Connell JR, Schlessinger D, Strachan DP, Stefansson K, van Duijn CM, Hirschhorn JN, Lindgren CM, Heid IM, North KE, Borecki IB, Kutalik Z, Loos RJF. Correction: The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study. PLoS Genet 2016; 12:e1006166. [PMID: 27355579 PMCID: PMC4927064 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005378.].
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Scott WR, Zhang W, Loh M, Tan ST, Lehne B, Afzal U, Peralta J, Saxena R, Ralhan S, Wander GS, Bozaoglu K, Sanghera DK, Elliott P, Scott J, Chambers JC, Kooner JS. Investigation of Genetic Variation Underlying Central Obesity amongst South Asians. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0155478. [PMID: 27195708 PMCID: PMC4873263 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2015] [Accepted: 04/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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South Asians are 1/4 of the world's population and have increased susceptibility to central obesity and related cardiometabolic disease. Knowledge of genetic variants affecting risk of central obesity is largely based on genome-wide association studies of common SNPs in Europeans. To evaluate the contribution of DNA sequence variation to the higher levels of central obesity (defined as waist hip ratio adjusted for body mass index, WHR) among South Asians compared to Europeans we carried out: i) a genome-wide association analysis of >6M genetic variants in 10,318 South Asians with focused analysis of population-specific SNPs; ii) an exome-wide association analysis of ~250K SNPs in protein-coding regions in 2,637 South Asians; iii) a comparison of risk allele frequencies and effect sizes of 48 known WHR SNPs in 12,240 South Asians compared to Europeans. In genome-wide analyses, we found no novel associations between common genetic variants and WHR in South Asians at P<5x10-8; variants showing equivocal association with WHR (P<1x10-5) did not replicate at P<0.05 in an independent cohort of South Asians (N = 1,922) or in published, predominantly European meta-analysis data. In the targeted analyses of 122,391 population-specific SNPs we also found no associations with WHR in South Asians at P<0.05 after multiple testing correction. Exome-wide analyses showed no new associations between genetic variants and WHR in South Asians, either individually at P<1.5x10-6 or grouped by gene locus at P<2.5x10-6. At known WHR loci, risk allele frequencies were not higher in South Asians compared to Europeans (P = 0.77), while effect sizes were unexpectedly smaller in South Asians than Europeans (P<5.0x10-8). Our findings argue against an important contribution for population-specific or cosmopolitan genetic variants underlying the increased risk of central obesity in South Asians compared to Europeans.
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Affiliation(s)
- William R. Scott
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London, United Kingdom
- * E-mail:
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London, United Kingdom
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- Genomics Computer Centre, South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas at the Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas, United States of America
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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- Hero DMC Heart Institute, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
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- Genomics and Systems Biology, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC Australia
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, United States of America
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, United States of America
- Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, United States of America
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London, United Kingdom
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Du Cane Road, London, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London, United Kingdom
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Du Cane Road, London, United Kingdom
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Lehne B, Drong AW, Loh M, Zhang W, Scott WR, Tan ST, Afzal U, Schulz R, Scott J, Jarvelin MR, Elliott P, McCarthy MI, Kooner JS, Chambers JC. Erratum to: A coherent approach for analysis of the Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChip improves data quality and performance in epigenome-wide association studies. Genome Biol 2016; 17:73. [PMID: 27103459 PMCID: PMC4840976 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-0934-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2016] [Accepted: 04/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Benjamin Lehne
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK.
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK.,Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, P.O.Box 5000, Oulu, FI-90014, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK.,Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK.,National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK.,National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK.,Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, King's College London, London, UK
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK.,Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, P.O.Box 5000, Oulu, FI-90014, Finland.,Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, P.O.Box 5000, Aapistie 5A, Oulu, FI-90014, Finland.,Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Kajaanintie 50, P.O.Box 20, FI-90220, Oulu, 90029 OYS, Finland.,Department of Children and Young People and Families, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Aapistie 1, Box 310, FI-90101, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK.,National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK.,Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, W12 0HS, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK. .,Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK. .,Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. .,Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, W12 0HS, UK.
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van Leeuwen EM, Sabo A, Bis JC, Huffman JE, Manichaikul A, Smith AV, Feitosa MF, Demissie S, Joshi PK, Duan Q, Marten J, van Klinken JB, Surakka I, Nolte IM, Zhang W, Mbarek H, Li-Gao R, Trompet S, Verweij N, Evangelou E, Lyytikäinen LP, Tayo BO, Deelen J, van der Most PJ, van der Laan SW, Arking DE, Morrison A, Dehghan A, Franco OH, Hofman A, Rivadeneira F, Sijbrands EJ, Uitterlinden AG, Mychaleckyj JC, Campbell A, Hocking LJ, Padmanabhan S, Brody JA, Rice KM, White CC, Harris T, Isaacs A, Campbell H, Lange LA, Rudan I, Kolcic I, Navarro P, Zemunik T, Salomaa V, Kooner AS, Kooner JS, Lehne B, Scott WR, Tan ST, de Geus EJ, Milaneschi Y, Penninx BWJH, Willemsen G, de Mutsert R, Ford I, Gansevoort RT, Segura-Lepe MP, Raitakari OT, Viikari JS, Nikus K, Forrester T, McKenzie CA, de Craen AJM, de Ruijter HM, Pasterkamp G, Snieder H, Oldehinkel AJ, Slagboom PE, Cooper RS, Kähönen M, Lehtimäki T, Elliott P, van der Harst P, Jukema JW, Mook-Kanamori DO, Boomsma DI, Chambers JC, Swertz M, Ripatti S, Willems van Dijk K, Vitart V, Polasek O, Hayward C, Wilson JG, Wilson JF, Gudnason V, Rich SS, Psaty BM, Borecki IB, Boerwinkle E, Rotter JI, Cupples LA, van Duijn CM. Meta-analysis of 49 549 individuals imputed with the 1000 Genomes Project reveals an exonic damaging variant in ANGPTL4 determining fasting TG levels. J Med Genet 2016; 53:441-9. [PMID: 27036123 PMCID: PMC4941146 DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2015] [Accepted: 11/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
Abstract
Background So far, more than 170 loci have been associated with circulating lipid levels through genome-wide association studies (GWAS). These associations are largely driven by common variants, their function is often not known, and many are likely to be markers for the causal variants. In this study we aimed to identify more new rare and low-frequency functional variants associated with circulating lipid levels. Methods We used the 1000 Genomes Project as a reference panel for the imputations of GWAS data from ∼60 000 individuals in the discovery stage and ∼90 000 samples in the replication stage. Results Our study resulted in the identification of five new associations with circulating lipid levels at four loci. All four loci are within genes that can be linked biologically to lipid metabolism. One of the variants, rs116843064, is a damaging missense variant within the ANGPTL4 gene. Conclusions This study illustrates that GWAS with high-scale imputation may still help us unravel the biological mechanism behind circulating lipid levels.
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- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK The Framingham Heart Study, NHLBI Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Human Genomics Branch, Framingham, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA
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- Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Human Genomics Unit, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex, UK
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam and EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
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- Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, USA
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- Department of Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
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- Generation Scotland, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Musculoskeletal Research Programme, Division of Applied Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Cardiovascular Science, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex, UK Cardiovascular Science, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trus, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex, UK
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- Cardiovascular Science, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam and EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam/GGZinGeest and EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam/GGZinGeest and EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam and EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Robertson Center for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Nephrology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Division of Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland Department of Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Cardiology, Heart Hospital, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland School of Medicine, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
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- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
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- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
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- Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Laboratory of Clinical Chemistry and Hematology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, USA
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Epidemiology Section, Department of BESC, King Faisal Medical Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam and EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex, UK Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trus, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Genomics Coordination Center, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Human Genomics Unit, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Department of General Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Group Health Cooperative, Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA
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- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA Human Genetics Center, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, USA
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, USA Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, USA Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Human Genetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
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- The Framingham Heart Study, NHLBI Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Human Genomics Branch, Framingham, USA Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA
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Lu Y, Day FR, Gustafsson S, Buchkovich ML, Na J, Bataille V, Cousminer DL, Dastani Z, Drong AW, Esko T, Evans DM, Falchi M, Feitosa MF, Ferreira T, Hedman ÅK, Haring R, Hysi PG, Iles MM, Justice AE, Kanoni S, Lagou V, Li R, Li X, Locke A, Lu C, Mägi R, Perry JRB, Pers TH, Qi Q, Sanna M, Schmidt EM, Scott WR, Shungin D, Teumer A, Vinkhuyzen AAE, Walker RW, Westra HJ, Zhang M, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Zhu Z, Afzal U, Ahluwalia TS, Bakker SJL, Bellis C, Bonnefond A, Borodulin K, Buchman AS, Cederholm T, Choh AC, Choi HJ, Curran JE, de Groot LCPGM, De Jager PL, Dhonukshe-Rutten RAM, Enneman AW, Eury E, Evans DS, Forsen T, Friedrich N, Fumeron F, Garcia ME, Gärtner S, Han BG, Havulinna AS, Hayward C, Hernandez D, Hillege H, Ittermann T, Kent JW, Kolcic I, Laatikainen T, Lahti J, Leach IM, Lee CG, Lee JY, Liu T, Liu Y, Lobbens S, Loh M, Lyytikäinen LP, Medina-Gomez C, Michaëlsson K, Nalls MA, Nielson CM, Oozageer L, Pascoe L, Paternoster L, Polašek O, Ripatti S, Sarzynski MA, Shin CS, Narančić NS, Spira D, Srikanth P, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Sung YJ, Swart KMA, Taittonen L, Tanaka T, Tikkanen E, van der Velde N, van Schoor NM, Verweij N, Wright AF, Yu L, Zmuda JM, Eklund N, Forrester T, Grarup N, Jackson AU, Kristiansson K, Kuulasmaa T, Kuusisto J, Lichtner P, Luan J, Mahajan A, Männistö S, Palmer CD, Ried JS, Scott RA, Stancáková A, Wagner PJ, Demirkan A, Döring A, Gudnason V, Kiel DP, Kühnel B, Mangino M, Mcknight B, Menni C, O'Connell JR, Oostra BA, Shuldiner AR, Song K, Vandenput L, van Duijn CM, Vollenweider P, White CC, Boehnke M, Boettcher Y, Cooper RS, Forouhi NG, Gieger C, Grallert H, Hingorani A, Jørgensen T, Jousilahti P, Kivimaki M, Kumari M, Laakso M, Langenberg C, Linneberg A, Luke A, Mckenzie CA, Palotie A, Pedersen O, Peters A, Strauch K, Tayo BO, Wareham NJ, Bennett DA, Bertram L, Blangero J, Blüher M, Bouchard C, Campbell H, Cho NH, Cummings SR, Czerwinski SA, Demuth I, Eckardt R, Eriksson JG, Ferrucci L, Franco OH, Froguel P, Gansevoort RT, Hansen T, Harris TB, Hastie N, Heliövaara M, Hofman A, Jordan JM, Jula A, Kähönen M, Kajantie E, Knekt PB, Koskinen S, Kovacs P, Lehtimäki T, Lind L, Liu Y, Orwoll ES, Osmond C, Perola M, Pérusse L, Raitakari OT, Rankinen T, Rao DC, Rice TK, Rivadeneira F, Rudan I, Salomaa V, Sørensen TIA, Stumvoll M, Tönjes A, Towne B, Tranah GJ, Tremblay A, Uitterlinden AG, van der Harst P, Vartiainen E, Viikari JS, Vitart V, Vohl MC, Völzke H, Walker M, Wallaschofski H, Wild S, Wilson JF, Yengo L, Bishop DT, Borecki IB, Chambers JC, Cupples LA, Dehghan A, Deloukas P, Fatemifar G, Fox C, Furey TS, Franke L, Han J, Hunter DJ, Karjalainen J, Karpe F, Kaplan RC, Kooner JS, McCarthy MI, Murabito JM, Morris AP, Bishop JAN, North KE, Ohlsson C, Ong KK, Prokopenko I, Richards JB, Schadt EE, Spector TD, Widén E, Willer CJ, Yang J, Ingelsson E, Mohlke KL, Hirschhorn JN, Pospisilik JA, Zillikens MC, Lindgren C, Kilpeläinen TO, Loos RJF. New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk. Nat Commun 2016; 7:10495. [PMID: 26833246 PMCID: PMC4740398 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2015] [Accepted: 12/16/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of adiposity and its links to cardiometabolic disease risk, we conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of body fat percentage (BF%) in up to 100,716 individuals. Twelve loci reached genome-wide significance (P<5 × 10(-8)), of which eight were previously associated with increased overall adiposity (BMI, BF%) and four (in or near COBLL1/GRB14, IGF2BP1, PLA2G6, CRTC1) were novel associations with BF%. Seven loci showed a larger effect on BF% than on BMI, suggestive of a primary association with adiposity, while five loci showed larger effects on BMI than on BF%, suggesting association with both fat and lean mass. In particular, the loci more strongly associated with BF% showed distinct cross-phenotype association signatures with a range of cardiometabolic traits revealing new insights in the link between adiposity and disease risk.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yingchang Lu
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New
York
10029, USA
- The Department of Preventive Medicine, The Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
10029, USA
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of
Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge
CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 750
85
Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology, Uppsala
University, 751 85
Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
27599, USA
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- Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, The Icahn
School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
10029, USA
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- West Herts NHS Trust, Herts
HP2 4AD, UK
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology,
King's College London, London
SE1 7EH, UK
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of
Helsinki, FI-00290
Helsinki, Finland
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- Department Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Human Genetics, Lady
Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University,
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
H3T1E2
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of
Oxford, Oxford
OX3 7BN, UK
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- Estonian Genome Center, Univeristy of Tartu,
Tartu, 51010, Estonia
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and Harvard University, Cambridge
2142, USA
- Divisions of Endocrinology and Genetics and Center for Basic
and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital,
Boston, Massachusetts
02115, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, Massachusetts
02115, USA
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- University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational
Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland
4102, Australia
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and
Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol
BS82BN, UKnited
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology,
King's College London, London
SE1 7EH, UK
- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public
Health, Imperial College London, London
W12 0NN, UK
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics,
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis,
Missouri
63108, USA
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of
Oxford, Oxford
OX3 7BN, UK
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 750
85
Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology, Uppsala
University, 751 85
Uppsala, Sweden
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of
Oxford, Oxford
OX3 7BN, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine,
University Medicine Greifswald, 17475
Greifswald, Germany
- European University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Applied
Public Health, 18055
Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology,
King's College London, London
SE1 7EH, UK
| | - Mark M. Iles
- Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, Cancer Research UK
Leeds Centre, University of Leeds, Leeds
LS9 7TF, UK
| | - Anne E. Justice
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
27599, USA
| | - Stavroula Kanoni
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School
of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London,
London
EC1M 6BQ, UK
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics,
Hinxton, Cambridge
CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Vasiliki Lagou
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of
Oxford, Oxford
OX3 7BN, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism,
University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
OX3 7LJ, UK
| | - Rui Li
- Department Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Human Genetics, Lady
Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University,
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
H3T1E2
| | - Xin Li
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public
Health, Boston, Massachusetts
02115, USA
| | - Adam Locke
- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
48109, USA
| | - Chen Lu
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public
Health, Boston, Massachusetts
02118, USA
| | - Reedik Mägi
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of
Oxford, Oxford
OX3 7BN, UK
- Estonian Genome Center, Univeristy of Tartu,
Tartu, 51010, Estonia
| | - John R. B. Perry
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of
Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge
CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Tune H. Pers
- Divisions of Endocrinology and Genetics and Center for Basic
and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital,
Boston, Massachusetts
02115, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, Massachusetts
02115, USA
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research,
Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences,
University of Copenhagen, 2100
Copenhagen, Denmark
- Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT
and Harvard, Cambridge
02142, USA
- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum
Institut, 2100
Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Qibin Qi
- Department of Epidemiology and Popualtion Health, Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
10461, USA
| | - Marianna Sanna
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology,
King's College London, London
SE1 7EH, UK
- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public
Health, Imperial College London, London
W12 0NN, UK
| | - Ellen M. Schmidt
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
48109, USA
| | - William R. Scott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College
London, London
W2 1PG, UK
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex
UB1 3HW, UK
| | - Dmitry Shungin
- Lund University Diabetes Centre, Department of Clinical
Science, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Skåne University
Hosptial, 205 02
Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Unit of
Medicine, Umeå University, 901 87
Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Odontology, Umeå University,
901 85
Umeå, Sweden
| | - Alexander Teumer
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine
Greifswald, 17475
Greifswald, Germany
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics,
University Medicine Greifswald, 17475
Greifswald, Germany
| | | | - Ryan W. Walker
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New
York
10029, USA
- The Department of Preventive Medicine, The Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
10029, USA
| | - Harm-Jan Westra
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of
Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
02142, USA
- Divisions of Genetics and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine,
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School,
Boston, Massachusetts
02446, USA
- Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine,
Boston, Massachusetts
02446, USA
| | - Mingfeng Zhang
- Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
02115, USA
| | - Weihua Zhang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College
London, London
W2 1PG, UK
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex
UB1 3HW, UK
| | - Jing Hua Zhao
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of
Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge
CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Zhihong Zhu
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland,
Brisbane
4072, Australia
| | - Uzma Afzal
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College
London, London
W2 1PG, UK
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex
UB1 3HW, UK
| | - Tarunveer Singh Ahluwalia
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research,
Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences,
University of Copenhagen, 2100
Copenhagen, Denmark
- Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Faculty
of Health and Medical Sceinces, University of Copenhagen, 2200
Copenhagen, Denmark
- Danish Pediatric Asthma Center, Gentofte Hospital, The Capital
Region, 2200
Copenhagen, Denmark
- Steno Diabetes Center A/S, DK-2820
Gentofte, Denmark
| | - Stephan J. L. Bakker
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen,
Department of Medicine, 9700 RB
Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Claire Bellis
- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research
Institute, San Antonio, Texas
78245, USA
| | - Amélie Bonnefond
- CNRS UMR 8199, F-59019
Lille, France
- European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, 59000
Lille, France
- Université de Lille 2, 59000
Lille, France
| | - Katja Borodulin
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Aron S. Buchman
- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University
Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
60612, USA
| | - Tommy Cederholm
- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Clinical
Nutrition and Metabolism, Uppsala University, 751 85
Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Audrey C. Choh
- Lifespan Health Research Center, Wright State University
Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio
45420, USA
| | - Hyung Jin Choi
- Department of Anatomy, Seoul National University College of
Medicine, Seoul
03080, Korea
| | - Joanne E. Curran
- South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas
Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas
78520
| | | | - Philip L. De Jager
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of
Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
02142, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston,
Massachusetts
02115, USA
- Program in Translational NeuroPsychiatric Genomics, Department
of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston,
Massachusetts
02115, USA
| | | | - Anke W. Enneman
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center,
3015GE
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Elodie Eury
- CNRS UMR 8199, F-59019
Lille, France
- European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, 59000
Lille, France
- Université de Lille 2, 59000
Lille, France
| | - Daniel S. Evans
- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute,
San Francisco, California
94107, USA
| | - Tom Forsen
- Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care,
University of Helsinki, FI-00014
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Nele Friedrich
- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine,
University Medicine Greifswald, 17475
Greifswald, Germany
| | - Frédéric Fumeron
- INSERM, UMR_S 1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers,
F-75006
Paris, France
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR_S
1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, F-75006
Paris, France
- Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris
Cité, UMR_S 1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers,
F-75006
Paris, France
- Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR_S 1138,
Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, F-75006
Paris, France
| | - Melissa E. Garcia
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National
Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland
20892, USA
| | - Simone Gärtner
- Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald,
17475
Greifswald, Germany
| | - Bok-Ghee Han
- Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Osong
Health Technology Administration Complex, Chungcheongbuk-do
370914, Korea
| | - Aki S. Havulinna
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Caroline Hayward
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular
Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
EH4 2XU, UK
| | - Dena Hernandez
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
20892, USA
| | - Hans Hillege
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen,
Department of Cardiology, 9700 RB
Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Till Ittermann
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine
Greifswald, 17475
Greifswald, Germany
| | - Jack W. Kent
- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research
Institute, San Antonio, Texas
78245, USA
| | - Ivana Kolcic
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of
Split, Split
21000, Croatia
| | - Tiina Laatikainen
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
- Hospital District of North Karelia, FI-80210
Joensuu, Finland
- Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University
of Eastern Finland, FI-70211
Kuopio, Finland
| | - Jari Lahti
- Folkhälsan Research Centre, FI-00290
Helsinki, Finland
- Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of
Helsinki, FI-00014
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Irene Mateo Leach
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen,
Department of Cardiology, 9700 RB
Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Christine G. Lee
- Department of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science
University, Portland, Oregon
97239, USA
- Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center,
Portland, Oregon
97239, USA
| | - Jong-Young Lee
- Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Osong
Health Technology Administration Complex, Chungcheongbuk-do
370914, Korea
| | - Tian Liu
- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Department of
Vertebrate Genomics, 14195
Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development,
14194
Berlin, Germany
| | - Youfang Liu
- Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chaper Hill, North Carolina
27599-7280, USA
| | - Stéphane Lobbens
- CNRS UMR 8199, F-59019
Lille, France
- European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, 59000
Lille, France
- Université de Lille 2, 59000
Lille, France
| | - Marie Loh
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College
London, London
W2 1PG, UK
- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine (TLGM), Agency for
Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 8A Biomedical
Grove, Immunos, Level 5, Singapore
138648, Singapore
| | - Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere School
of Medicine, FI-33014
Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories and
School of Medicine, University of Tampere, FI-33520
Tampere, Finland
| | - Carolina Medina-Gomez
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center,
3015GE
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands
Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Rotterdam
The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center,
3015GE
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Karl Michaëlsson
- Department of Surgical Sciences, Orthopedics, Uppsala
University, 751 85
Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Mike A. Nalls
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
20892, USA
| | - Carrie M. Nielson
- School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science
University, Portland, Oregon
97239, USA
- Bone & Mineral Unit, Oregon Health & Science
University, Portland, Oregon
97239, USA
| | | | - Laura Pascoe
- Institute of Cell & Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle
University, Newcastle
NE1 7RU, UK
| | - Lavinia Paternoster
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and
Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol
BS82BN, UKnited
| | - Ozren Polašek
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of
Split, Split
21000, Croatia
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of
Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Teviot
Place, Edinburgh
EH8 9AG, UK
| | - Samuli Ripatti
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of
Helsinki, FI-00290
Helsinki, Finland
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics,
Hinxton, Cambridge
CB10 1SA, UK
- Hjelt Institute, University of Helsinki,
FI-00014
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Mark A. Sarzynski
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research
Center, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles
70808, USA
| | - Chan Soo Shin
- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University
College of Medicine, Seoul
03080, Korea
| | | | - Dominik Spira
- The Berlin Aging Study II; Research Group on Geriatrics;
Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin,
13347
Berlin, Germany
- Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center,
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353
Berlin, Germany
| | - Priya Srikanth
- School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science
University, Portland, Oregon
97239, USA
- Bone & Mineral Unit, Oregon Health & Science
University, Portland, Oregon
97239, USA
| | - Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen
- The Berlin Aging Study II; Research Group on Geriatrics;
Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin,
13347
Berlin, Germany
- Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center,
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353
Berlin, Germany
| | - Yun Ju Sung
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of
Medicine, St Louis, Missouri
63110, USA
| | - Karin M. A. Swart
- EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University
Medical Center, 1081 BT
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- VUMC, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
1081 BT
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Leena Taittonen
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Oulu,
FI-90014
Oulu, Finland
- Department of Pediatrics, Vaasa Central Hospital,
FI-65100
Vaasa, Finland
| | - Toshiko Tanaka
- Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on
Aging, Baltimore, Maryland
21225, USA
| | - Emmi Tikkanen
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of
Helsinki, FI-00290
Helsinki, Finland
- Hjelt Institute, University of Helsinki,
FI-00014
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Nathalie van der Velde
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center,
3015GE
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Natasja M. van Schoor
- EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University
Medical Center, 1081 BT
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- VUMC, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
1081 BT
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Niek Verweij
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen,
Department of Cardiology, 9700 RB
Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Alan F. Wright
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular
Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
EH4 2XU, UK
| | - Lei Yu
- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University
Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
60612, USA
| | - Joseph M. Zmuda
- Department of Epidemiology; University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
15261, USA
| | - Niina Eklund
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Terrence Forrester
- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research
Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona
JMAAW15, Jamaica
| | - Niels Grarup
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research,
Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences,
University of Copenhagen, 2100
Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Anne U. Jackson
- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
48109, USA
| | - Kati Kristiansson
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of
Helsinki, FI-00290
Helsinki, Finland
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Teemu Kuulasmaa
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Clinical Medicine,
Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, 70210
Kuopio, Finland
| | - Johanna Kuusisto
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Clinical Medicine,
Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, 70210
Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland,
70210
Kuopio, Finland
- Kuopio University Hospital, 70029
Kuopio, Finland
| | - Peter Lichtner
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum
München—German Research Center for Environmental
Health, 85764
Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Jian'an Luan
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of
Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge
CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Anubha Mahajan
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of
Oxford, Oxford
OX3 7BN, UK
| | - Satu Männistö
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Cameron D. Palmer
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and Harvard University, Cambridge
2142, USA
- Divisions of Endocrinology and Genetics and Center for Basic
and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital,
Boston, Massachusetts
02115, USA
| | - Janina S. Ried
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum
München—German Research Center for Environmental
Health, 85764
Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Robert A. Scott
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of
Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge
CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Alena Stancáková
- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and
Kuopio University Hospital, 70210
Kuopio, Finland
| | - Peter J. Wagner
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of
Helsinki, FI-00290
Helsinki, Finland
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Ayse Demirkan
- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus
University Medical Center, 3015GE
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Angela Döring
- Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum
München—German Research Center for Environmental
Health, 85764
Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum
München—German Research Center for Environmental
Health, 85764
Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Vilmundur Gudnason
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur
201, Iceland
- University of Iceland, Faculty of Medicine,
Reykjavik
101, Iceland
| | - Douglas P. Kiel
- Department of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
02115
- Institute for Aging Research Hebrew Senior Life,
Boston, Massachusetts
02131, USA
| | - Brigitte Kühnel
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum
München—German Research Center for Environmental
Health, 85764
Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum
München—German Research Center for Environmental
Health, 85764
Neuherberg, Germany
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum
München—German Research Center for Environmental
Health, 85764
Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Massimo Mangino
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology,
King's College London, London
SE1 7EH, UK
| | - Barbara Mcknight
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington
98101, USA
- Program in Biostatistics and Biomathematics, Divison of Public
Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center,
Seattle, Washington
98109, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington
98195, USA
| | - Cristina Menni
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology,
King's College London, London
SE1 7EH, UK
| | - Jeffrey R. O'Connell
- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, Division of
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of
Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
21201, USA
| | - Ben A. Oostra
- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus
University Medical Center, 3015GE
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Alan R. Shuldiner
- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, Division of
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of
Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
21201, USA
- Geriatric Research and Education Clinical Center, Vetrans
Administration Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland
21042, USA
| | - Kijoung Song
- Genetics, Projects Clinical Platforms and Sciences,
GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19112, USA
| | - Liesbeth Vandenput
- Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Department of Internal
Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy,
University of Gothenburg, 413 45
Gothenburg, Sweden
| | - Cornelia M. van Duijn
- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands
Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Rotterdam
The Netherlands
- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus
University Medical Center, 3015GE
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Center for Medical Systems Biology, 2300
Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Peter Vollenweider
- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Lausanne
(CHUV) and University of Lausanne, 1011
Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Charles C. White
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public
Health, Boston, Massachusetts
02118, USA
| | - Michael Boehnke
- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
48109, USA
| | - Yvonne Boettcher
- University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases,
04103
Leipzig, Germany
- University of Leipzig, Department of Medicine,
04103
Leipzig, Germany
| | - Richard S. Cooper
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Stritch School of
Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois
61053, USA
| | - Nita G. Forouhi
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of
Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge
CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Christian Gieger
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum
München—German Research Center for Environmental
Health, 85764
Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum
München—German Research Center for Environmental
Health, 85764
Neuherberg, Germany
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum
München—German Research Center for Environmental
Health, 85764
Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Harald Grallert
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum
München—German Research Center for Environmental
Health, 85764
Neuherberg, Germany
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum
München—German Research Center for Environmental
Health, 85764
Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD),
85764
Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Aroon Hingorani
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College
London, London
WC1E 6BT, UK
| | - Torben Jørgensen
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical
Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200
Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Aalborg,
9220
Aalborg, Denmark
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health,
DK2600
Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
| | - Pekka Jousilahti
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Mika Kivimaki
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL,
London
WC1E 6BT, UK
| | - Meena Kumari
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL,
London
WC1E 6BT, UK
| | - Markku Laakso
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Clinical Medicine,
Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, 70210
Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland,
70210
Kuopio, Finland
- Kuopio University Hospital, 70029
Kuopio, Finland
| | - Claudia Langenberg
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of
Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge
CB2 0QQ, UK
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL,
London
WC1E 6BT, UK
| | - Allan Linneberg
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup
Hospital, 2600
Glostrup, Denmark
| | - Amy Luke
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Stritch School of
Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois
61053, USA
| | - Colin A. Mckenzie
- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research
Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona
JMAAW15, Jamaica
| | - Aarno Palotie
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of
Helsinki, FI-00290
Helsinki, Finland
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics,
Hinxton, Cambridge
CB10 1SA, UK
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Human Genetic
Research, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit,
Boston, Massachusetts
02114, USA
| | - Oluf Pedersen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research,
Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences,
University of Copenhagen, 2100
Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Annette Peters
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum
München—German Research Center for Environmental
Health, 85764
Neuherberg, Germany
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum
München—German Research Center for Environmental
Health, 85764
Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Konstantin Strauch
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum
München—German Research Center for Environmental
Health, 85764
Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology,
Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität,
81377
Munich, Germany
| | - Bamidele O. Tayo
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Stritch School of
Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois
61053, USA
| | - Nicholas J. Wareham
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of
Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge
CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - David A. Bennett
- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University
Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
60612, USA
| | - Lars Bertram
- School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College
London, London
W6 8RP, UK
- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome
Analytics, Institutes of Neurogenetics and Integrative and Experimental
Genomics, University of Lübeck, 23562
Lübeck, Germany
| | - John Blangero
- South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas
Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas
78520
| | - Matthias Blüher
- University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases,
04103
Leipzig, Germany
- University of Leipzig, Department of Medicine,
04103
Leipzig, Germany
| | - Claude Bouchard
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research
Center, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles
70808, USA
| | - Harry Campbell
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of
Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Teviot
Place, Edinburgh
EH8 9AG, UK
| | - Nam H. Cho
- Ajou University School of Medicine, Department of Preventive
Medicine, Suwon Kyoung-gi
443-721, Korea
| | - Steven R. Cummings
- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute,
San Francisco, California
94107, USA
| | - Stefan A. Czerwinski
- Lifespan Health Research Center, Wright State University
Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio
45420, USA
| | - Ilja Demuth
- The Berlin Aging Study II; Research Group on Geriatrics;
Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin,
13347
Berlin, Germany
- Institute of Medical and Human Genetics,
Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin,
13353
Berlin, Germany
| | - Rahel Eckardt
- The Berlin Aging Study II; Research Group on Geriatrics;
Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin,
13347
Berlin, Germany
| | - Johan G. Eriksson
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
- Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care,
University of Helsinki, FI-00014
Helsinki, Finland
- Folkhälsan Research Centre, FI-00290
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Luigi Ferrucci
- Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on
Aging, Baltimore, Maryland
21225, USA
| | - Oscar H. Franco
- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands
Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Rotterdam
The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center,
3015GE
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Philippe Froguel
- CNRS UMR 8199, F-59019
Lille, France
- European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, 59000
Lille, France
- Université de Lille 2, 59000
Lille, France
| | - Ron T. Gansevoort
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen,
Department of Medicine, 9700 RB
Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Torben Hansen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research,
Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences,
University of Copenhagen, 2100
Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern
Denmark, 5000
Odense, Denmark
| | - Tamara B. Harris
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National
Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland
20892, USA
| | - Nicholas Hastie
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular
Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
EH4 2XU, UK
| | - Markku Heliövaara
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Albert Hofman
- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands
Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Rotterdam
The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center,
3015GE
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Joanne M. Jordan
- Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chaper Hill, North Carolina
27599-7280, USA
| | - Antti Jula
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Mika Kähönen
- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University
Hospital, FI-33521
Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere
School of Medicine, FI-33014
Tampere, Finland
| | - Eero Kajantie
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
- Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital and
University of Helsinki, FI-00029
Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, MRC Oulu, Oulu
University Hospital and University of Oulu, FI-90029
Oulu, Finland
| | - Paul B. Knekt
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Seppo Koskinen
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Peter Kovacs
- University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases,
04103
Leipzig, Germany
| | - Terho Lehtimäki
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere School
of Medicine, FI-33014
Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories and
School of Medicine, University of Tampere, FI-33520
Tampere, Finland
| | - Lars Lind
- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University,
751 85
Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Yongmei Liu
- Center for Human Genetics, Division of Public Health Sciences,
Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North
Carolina
27157, USA
| | - Eric S. Orwoll
- Bone & Mineral Unit, Oregon Health & Science
University, Portland, Oregon
97239, USA
| | - Clive Osmond
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton,
Southampton General Hospital, Southampton
SO16 6YD, UK
| | - Markus Perola
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of
Helsinki, FI-00290
Helsinki, Finland
- Estonian Genome Center, Univeristy of Tartu,
Tartu, 51010, Estonia
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Louis Pérusse
- Department of Kinesiology, Laval University,
Québec City, Quebec, Canada
G1V 0A6
- Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods, Laval
University, Québec City, Quebec,
Canada
G1V 0A6
| | - Olli T. Raitakari
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku
University Hospital, FI-20521
Turku, Finland
- Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular
Medicine, University of Turku, FI-20520
Turku, Finland
| | - Tuomo Rankinen
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research
Center, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles
70808, USA
| | - D. C. Rao
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics,
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis,
Missouri
63108, USA
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of
Medicine, St Louis, Missouri
63110, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of
Medicine, St Louis, Missouri
63110, USA
| | - Treva K. Rice
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of
Medicine, St Louis, Missouri
63110, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of
Medicine, St Louis, Missouri
63110, USA
| | - Fernando Rivadeneira
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center,
3015GE
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands
Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Rotterdam
The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center,
3015GE
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Igor Rudan
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of
Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Teviot
Place, Edinburgh
EH8 9AG, UK
| | - Veikko Salomaa
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Thorkild I. A. Sørensen
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and
Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol
BS82BN, UKnited
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research,
Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences,
University of Copenhagen, 2100
Copenhagen, Denmark
- Institute of Preventive Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg
Hospital, The Capital Region, 2000
Frederiksberg, Denmark
| | - Michael Stumvoll
- University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases,
04103
Leipzig, Germany
- University of Leipzig, Department of Medicine,
04103
Leipzig, Germany
| | - Anke Tönjes
- University of Leipzig, Department of Medicine,
04103
Leipzig, Germany
| | - Bradford Towne
- Lifespan Health Research Center, Wright State University
Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio
45420, USA
| | - Gregory J. Tranah
- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute,
San Francisco, California
94107, USA
| | - Angelo Tremblay
- Department of Kinesiology, Laval University,
Québec City, Quebec, Canada
G1V 0A6
| | - André G. Uitterlinden
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center,
3015GE
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands
Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Rotterdam
The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center,
3015GE
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Pim van der Harst
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen,
Department of Cardiology, 9700 RB
Groningen, The Netherlands
- Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, Interuniversity
Cardiology Institute Netherlands-Netherlands Heart Institute, 3501
DG
Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen,
University of Groningen, 9700 RB
Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Erkki Vartiainen
- National Institute for Health and Welfare,
FI-00271
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Jorma S. Viikari
- Department of Medicine, University of Turku,
FI-20521
Turku, Finland
| | - Veronique Vitart
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular
Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
EH4 2XU, UK
| | - Marie-Claude Vohl
- Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods, Laval
University, Québec City, Quebec,
Canada
G1V 0A6
- School of Nutrition, Laval University,
Québec City, Quebec, Canada
G1V 0A6
| | - Henry Völzke
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine
Greifswald, 17475
Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site
Greifswald, 17475
Greifswald, Germany
- DZD (German Centre for Diabetes Research), partner site
Greifswald, 17475
Greifswald, Germany
| | - Mark Walker
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of
Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
02142, USA
- Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University,
Newcastle
NE2 4HH, UK
| | - Henri Wallaschofski
- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine,
University Medicine Greifswald, 17475
Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site
Greifswald, 17475
Greifswald, Germany
| | - Sarah Wild
- Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute of
Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh
EH8 9AG, UK
| | - James F. Wilson
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular
Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
EH4 2XU, UK
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of
Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Teviot
Place, Edinburgh
EH8 9AG, UK
| | - Loïc Yengo
- CNRS UMR 8199, F-59019
Lille, France
- European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, 59000
Lille, France
- Université de Lille 2, 59000
Lille, France
| | - D. Timothy Bishop
- Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, Cancer Research UK
Leeds Centre, University of Leeds, Leeds
LS9 7TF, UK
| | - Ingrid B. Borecki
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics,
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis,
Missouri
63108, USA
- Analytical Genetics Group, Regeneron Genetics Center,
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, New York
10591, USA
| | - John C. Chambers
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College
London, London
W2 1PG, UK
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex
UB1 3HW, UK
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London
W12 0HS, UK
| | - L. Adrienne Cupples
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public
Health, Boston, Massachusetts
02118, USA
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Framingham
Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts
01702, USA
| | - Abbas Dehghan
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center,
3000CA
Rotterdam/Zuidholland, The Netherlands
| | - Panos Deloukas
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School
of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London,
London
EC1M 6BQ, UK
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics,
Hinxton, Cambridge
CB10 1SA, UK
- Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research
of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD), King Abdulaziz University,
Jeddah
21589, Saudi Arabia
| | - Ghazaleh Fatemifar
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and
Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol
BS82BN, UKnited
| | - Caroline Fox
- Harvard Medical School, Boston,
Massachusetts
02115, USA
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Framingham
Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts
01702, USA
| | - Terrence S. Furey
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
27599, USA
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
27599, USA
| | - Lude Franke
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen,
Department of Cardiology, 9700 RB
Groningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen,
University of Groningen, 9700 RB
Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Jiali Han
- Department of Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of
Public Health, Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center,
Indianapolis, Indiana
46202, USA
| | - David J. Hunter
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and Harvard University, Cambridge
2142, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public
Health, Boston, Massachusetts
02115, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine,
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School,
Boston, Massachusetts
02115, USA
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public
Health, Boston, Massachusetts
02115, USA
| | - Juha Karjalainen
- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen,
University of Groningen, 9700 RB
Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Fredrik Karpe
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism,
University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
OX3 7LJ, UK
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre,
Oxford
OX3 7LJ, UK
| | - Robert C. Kaplan
- Department of Epidemiology and Popualtion Health, Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
10461, USA
| | - Jaspal S. Kooner
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex
UB1 3HW, UK
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London
W12 0HS, UK
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College
London, London
W12 0NN, UK
| | - Mark I. McCarthy
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of
Oxford, Oxford
OX3 7BN, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism,
University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
OX3 7LJ, UK
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre,
Oxford
OX3 7LJ, UK
| | - Joanne M. Murabito
- Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine,
Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston,
Massachusetts
02118, USA
- NHLBI's and Boston University's Framingham
Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts
01702, USA
| | - Andrew P. Morris
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of
Oxford, Oxford
OX3 7BN, UK
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool,
Liverpool
L69 3GA, UK
| | - Julia A. N. Bishop
- Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, Cancer Research UK
Leeds Centre, University of Leeds, Leeds
LS9 7TF, UK
| | - Kari E. North
- Carolina Center for Genome Sciences and Department of
Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel
Hill, North Carolina
27599-7400, USA
| | - Claes Ohlsson
- Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Department of Internal
Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy,
University of Gothenburg, 413 45
Gothenburg, Sweden
| | - Ken K. Ong
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of
Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge
CB2 0QQ, UK
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL,
London
WC1B 5JU, UK
- Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge
CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Inga Prokopenko
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of
Oxford, Oxford
OX3 7BN, UK
- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public
Health, Imperial College London, London
W12 0NN, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism,
University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
OX3 7LJ, UK
| | - J. Brent Richards
- Department Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Human Genetics, Lady
Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University,
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
H3T1E2
- Department of Medicine, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General
Hospital, McGill University, Montréal,
Quebec, Canada
H3T1E2
- Department of Twin Research, King's College
London, London
SE1 1E7, UK
- Division of Endocrinology, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish
General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal,
Quebec, Canada
H3T1E2
| | - Eric E. Schadt
- Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn
School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
10029, USA
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
10029, USA
| | - Tim D. Spector
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology,
King's College London, London
SE1 7EH, UK
| | - Elisabeth Widén
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of
Helsinki, FI-00290
Helsinki, Finland
| | - Cristen J. Willer
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
48109, USA
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, Michigan
48109, USA
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular
Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
48109, USA
| | - Jian Yang
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland,
Brisbane
4072, Australia
| | - Erik Ingelsson
- Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 750
85
Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology, Uppsala
University, 751 85
Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine,
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford,
California
94305, USA
| | - Karen L. Mohlke
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
27599, USA
| | - Joel N. Hirschhorn
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and Harvard University, Cambridge
2142, USA
- Divisions of Endocrinology and Genetics and Center for Basic
and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital,
Boston, Massachusetts
02115, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, Massachusetts
02115, USA
| | - John Andrew Pospisilik
- Department of Epigenetics, Max Planck Institute of
Immunobiology and Epigenetics, D-76108
Freiburg, Germany
| | - M. Carola Zillikens
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center,
3015GE
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands
Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Rotterdam
The Netherlands
| | - Cecilia Lindgren
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of
Oxford, Oxford
OX3 7BN, UK
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and Harvard University, Cambridge
2142, USA
- The Big Data Institute, University of Oxford,
Oxford
OX3 7LJ, UK
| | - Tuomas Oskari Kilpeläinen
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of
Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge
CB2 0QQ, UK
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research,
Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences,
University of Copenhagen, 2100
Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Ruth J. F. Loos
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New
York
10029, USA
- The Department of Preventive Medicine, The Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
10029, USA
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of
Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge
CB2 0QQ, UK
- The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program,
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New
York, 10029, USA
- The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, The Icahn
School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
10029, USA
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The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study. PLoS Genet 2015; 11:e1005378. [PMID: 26426971 PMCID: PMC4591371 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 253] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2014] [Accepted: 06/22/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 100 genetic variants contributing to BMI, a measure of body size, or waist-to-hip ratio (adjusted for BMI, WHRadjBMI), a measure of body shape. Body size and shape change as people grow older and these changes differ substantially between men and women. To systematically screen for age- and/or sex-specific effects of genetic variants on BMI and WHRadjBMI, we performed meta-analyses of 114 studies (up to 320,485 individuals of European descent) with genome-wide chip and/or Metabochip data by the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium. Each study tested the association of up to ~2.8M SNPs with BMI and WHRadjBMI in four strata (men ≤50y, men >50y, women ≤50y, women >50y) and summary statistics were combined in stratum-specific meta-analyses. We then screened for variants that showed age-specific effects (G x AGE), sex-specific effects (G x SEX) or age-specific effects that differed between men and women (G x AGE x SEX). For BMI, we identified 15 loci (11 previously established for main effects, four novel) that showed significant (FDR<5%) age-specific effects, of which 11 had larger effects in younger (<50y) than in older adults (≥50y). No sex-dependent effects were identified for BMI. For WHRadjBMI, we identified 44 loci (27 previously established for main effects, 17 novel) with sex-specific effects, of which 28 showed larger effects in women than in men, five showed larger effects in men than in women, and 11 showed opposite effects between sexes. No age-dependent effects were identified for WHRadjBMI. This is the first genome-wide interaction meta-analysis to report convincing evidence of age-dependent genetic effects on BMI. In addition, we confirm the sex-specificity of genetic effects on WHRadjBMI. These results may provide further insights into the biology that underlies weight change with age or the sexually dimorphism of body shape. Adult body size and body shape differ substantially between men and women and change over time. More than 100 genetic variants that influence body mass index (measure of body size) or waist-to-hip ratio (measure of body shape) have been identified. While there is evidence that some genetic loci affect body shape differently in men than in women, little is known about whether genetic effects differ in older compared to younger adults, and whether such changes differ between men and women. Therefore, we conducted a systematic genome-wide search, including 114 studies (>320,000 individuals), to specifically identify genetic loci with age- and or sex-dependent effects on body size and shape. We identified 15 loci of which the effect on BMI was different in older compared to younger adults, whereas we found no evidence for loci with different effects in men compared to women. The opposite was seen for body shape as we identified 44 loci of which the effect on waist-to-hip ratio differed between men and women, but no difference between younger and older adults were observed. Our observations may provide new insights into the biology that underlies weight change with age or the sexual dimorphism of body shape.
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- Thomas W. Winkler
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Divisions of Endocrinology and Genetics and Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Estonian Genome Center, Univeristy of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- The Department of Preventive Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Estonian Genome Center, Univeristy of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Divisions of Endocrinology and Genetics and Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Specialties of Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
- Center for Complex Disease Genomics, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Genomics of Common Diseases, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Divisions of Genetics and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Steno Diabetes Center A/S, Gentofte, Denmark
- COPSAC, Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Health Protection Agency (HPA) Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- CNRS UMR 8199, Lille, France
- European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, Lille, France
- Université de Lille 2, Lille, France
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- Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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- VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Vth Department of Medicine, Mannheim Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Universiy of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Helsinki, Finland
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Public Health Genomics Unit, Helsinki, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Estonian Genome Center, Univeristy of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- Filarete Foundation, Genomic and Bioinformatics Unit, Milano, Italy
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- Radboud university medical center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Department for Health Evidence, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Division of Cardiovacular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Vth Department of Medicine, Mannheim Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Experimental Cardiology and laboratory of clinical chemistry, UMCU, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Core Genotyping Facility, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., NCI-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Health Protection Agency (HPA) Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Vth Department of Medicine, Mannheim Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland
- Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chaper Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Program in Biostatistics and Biomathematics, Divison of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- The Center for Observational Research, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, United States of America
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- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition, Dept of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Center for Evidence Based Healthcare, University of Dresden, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partnersite Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Cell & Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- Filarete Foundation, Genomic and Bioinformatics Unit, Milano, Italy
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition, Dept of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Helsinki, Finland
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Public Health Genomics Unit, Helsinki, Finland
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, CNR, Monserrato, Italy
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- Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Estonian Genome Center, Univeristy of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Public Health Genomics Unit, Helsinki, Finland
- Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, Department of Biotechnology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Experimental Cardiology and laboratory of clinical chemistry, UMCU, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Geriatric Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Endocrinology, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Transplantation Laboratory, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Divisions of Genetics and Endocrinology and Program in Genomics, Boston's Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Core Genotyping Facility, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., NCI-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Institut für Integrative und Experimentelle Genomik, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- CNRS UMR 8199, Lille, France
- European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, Lille, France
- Université de Lille 2, Lille, France
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- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition, Dept of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Medicine, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Milan, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Genomics Research Centre, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
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- University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases, Leipzig, Germany
- University of Leipzig, Department of Medicine, Leipzig, Germany
| | | | - Lori L. Bonnycastle
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Heather A. Boyd
- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Marcel Bruinenberg
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The LifeLines Cohort Study, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Aron S Buchman
- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
| | - Harry Campbell
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
| | - Yii-Der Ida Chen
- Los Angeles BioMedical Resesarch Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
| | - Peter S. Chines
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Simone Claudi-Boehm
- Department of Internal Medicine I, Ulm University Medical Centre, Ulm, Germany
| | - John Cole
- VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Universiy of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Francis S. Collins
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Eco J. C. de Geus
- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | | | - Maria Dimitriou
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Dietetics-Nutrition, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
| | - Jubao Duan
- NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
| | - Stefan Enroth
- Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Elodie Eury
- CNRS UMR 8199, Lille, France
- European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, Lille, France
- Université de Lille 2, Lille, France
| | - Aliki-Eleni Farmaki
- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
| | - Nita G. Forouhi
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Nele Friedrich
- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Pablo V. Gejman
- NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
| | - Bruna Gigante
- Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Nicola Glorioso
- Hypertension and Related Disease Centre, AOU-University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
| | - Alan S. Go
- Kaiser Permanente, Division of Research, Oakland, California, United States of America
| | - Omri Gottesman
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- The Department of Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
| | - Jürgen Gräßler
- Department of Medicine III, Pathobiochemistry, University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
| | - Harald Grallert
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Niels Grarup
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Yu-Mei Gu
- Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Linda Broer
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Annelies C. Ham
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Torben Hansen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
| | - Tamara B. Harris
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Catharina A. Hartman
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Psychiatry, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Maija Hassinen
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Nicholas Hastie
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
| | - Andrew T. Hattersley
- Institue of Biomedical & Clinical Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
| | - Andrew C. Heath
- Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
| | - Anjali K. Henders
- QIMR Bergofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| | - Dena Hernandez
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Hans Hillege
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, Netherlands
| | - Oddgeir Holmen
- Department of Public Health and General Practice, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
| | - Kees G Hovingh
- Department Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Jennie Hui
- Pathwest Laboratory Medicine of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia,Australia
- School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
- School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Lise L. Husemoen
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
| | - Nina Hutri-Kähönen
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
- Department of Pediatrics,Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
| | - Pirro G. Hysi
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Thomas Illig
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Hannover Unified Biobank, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
| | - Philip L. De Jager
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts,United States of America
- Program in Translational NeuroPsychiatric Genomics, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts,United States of America
| | - Shapour Jalilzadeh
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Division of Cardiovacular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
| | - Torben Jørgensen
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
| | - J. Wouter Jukema
- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands
| | - Markus Juonala
- Division of Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
| | - Stavroula Kanoni
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
| | | | - Kay Tee Khaw
- Clinical Gerontology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Leena Kinnunen
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Steven J. Kittner
- VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Universiy of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Wolfgang Koenig
- Department of Internal Medicine II—Cardiology, University of Ulm Medical Center, Ulm, Germany
| | - Ivana Kolcic
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - Peter Kovacs
- University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases, Leipzig, Germany
| | - Nikolaj T. Krarup
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Wolfgang Kratzer
- Department of Internal Medicine I, Ulm University Medical Centre, Ulm, Germany
| | - Janine Krüger
- Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Diana Kuh
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom
| | - Meena Kumari
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, London, United Kingdom
| | - Theodosios Kyriakou
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Division of Cardiovacular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
| | - Claudia Langenberg
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, London, United Kingdom
| | - Lars Lannfelt
- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Geriatrics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Chiara Lanzani
- Chair of Nephrology, Università Vita Salute San Raffaele, Segrate (Milan), Italy
- Genomics of Renal Disease and Hypertension Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Segrate (Milan), Italy
| | - Vaneet Lotay
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
| | - Lenore J. Launer
- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Karin Leander
- Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Jaana Lindström
- Diabetes Prevention Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Allan Linneberg
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Experimental Research, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark
| | - Yan-Ping Liu
- Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Stéphane Lobbens
- CNRS UMR 8199, Lille, France
- European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, Lille, France
- Université de Lille 2, Lille, France
| | - Robert Luben
- Strangeways Research Laboratory Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Valeriya Lyssenko
- Steno Diabetes Center A/S, Gentofte, Denmark
- Lund University Diabetes Centre and Department of Clinical Science, Diabetes & Endocrinology Unit, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Satu Männistö
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Patrik K. Magnusson
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Wendy L. McArdle
- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
| | - Cristina Menni
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Sigrun Merger
- Department of Internal Medicine I, Ulm University Medical Centre, Ulm, Germany
| | - Lili Milani
- Estonian Genome Center, Univeristy of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | | | - Andrew P. Morris
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - Narisu Narisu
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Mari Nelis
- Estonian Genome Center, Univeristy of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Ken K. Ong
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Aarno Palotie
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Human Genetic Research, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Louis Pérusse
- Department of Kinesiology, Laval University, Québec City, Québec, Canada
- Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods, Laval University, Québec City, Québec, Canada
| | - Irene Pichler
- Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
| | - Maria G. Pilia
- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, CNR, Monserrato, Italy
| | - Anneli Pouta
- Department of Children, Young People and Families, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
| | - Myriam Rheinberger
- Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
| | - Rasmus Ribel-Madsen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Marcus Richards
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom
| | - Kenneth M. Rice
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
| | - Treva K. Rice
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
| | - Carlo Rivolta
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Veikko Salomaa
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Alan R. Sanders
- NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
| | - Mark A. Sarzynski
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
| | - Salome Scholtens
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Robert A. Scott
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - William R. Scott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex, United Kingdom
| | - Sylvain Sebert
- Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
| | - Sebanti Sengupta
- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Bengt Sennblad
- Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Thomas Seufferlein
- Department of Internal Medicine I, Ulm University Medical Centre, Ulm, Germany
| | - Angela Silveira
- Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - P. Eline Slagboom
- Department of Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Jan H. Smit
- Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Thomas H. Sparsø
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Kathleen Stirrups
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Ronald P. Stolk
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Heather M. Stringham
- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Morris A Swertz
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Amy J. Swift
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Ann-Christine Syvänen
- Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Sian-Tsung Tan
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Barbara Thorand
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Anke Tönjes
- University of Leipzig, Department of Medicine, Leipzig, Germany
| | - Angelo Tremblay
- Department of Kinesiology, Laval University, Québec City, Québec, Canada
| | | | - Peter J. van der Most
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Uwe Völker
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Marie-Claude Vohl
- Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods, Laval University, Québec City, Québec, Canada
- School of Nutrition, Laval University, Québec City, Québec,Canada
| | - Judith M. Vonk
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Melanie Waldenberger
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partnersite Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Ryan W. Walker
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- The Department of Preventive Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
| | - Roman Wennauer
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Ulm University Medical Centre, Ulm, Germany
| | - Elisabeth Widén
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Gonneke Willemsen
- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Tom Wilsgaard
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
| | - Alan F. Wright
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
| | - M. Carola Zillikens
- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), The Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Suzanne C. van Dijk
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Natasja M. van Schoor
- EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- VUMC, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Folkert W. Asselbergs
- Department of Cardiology, Division Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, Interuniversity Cardiology Institute Netherlands-Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Paul I. W. de Bakker
- Department of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
| | | | - John Beilby
- Pathwest Laboratory Medicine of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia,Australia
- School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
| | - David A. Bennett
- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
| | - Richard N. Bergman
- Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
| | - Sven Bergmann
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Carsten A. Böger
- Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
| | - Bernhard O. Boehm
- Department of Internal Medicine I, Ulm University Medical Centre, Ulm, Germany
- Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore, Singapore
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Eric Boerwinkle
- Human Genetics Center and Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
| | - Dorret I. Boomsma
- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Stefan R. Bornstein
- Department of Medicine III, University of Dresden, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
| | - Erwin P. Bottinger
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- The Department of Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
| | - Claude Bouchard
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
| | - John C. Chambers
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
| | - Stephen J. Chanock
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Program in Biostatistics and Biomathematics, Divison of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
| | - Daniel I. Chasman
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts,United States of America
| | - Francesco Cucca
- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, CNR, Monserrato, Italy
- University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
| | - Daniele Cusi
- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Institute of Research, Segrate-Milano, Italy
| | - George Dedoussis
- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
| | - Jeanette Erdmann
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Institut für Integrative und Experimentelle Genomik, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
| | - Johan G. Eriksson
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Helsinki, Finland
- Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Denis A. Evans
- Rush Institute for Healthy Aging and Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
| | - Ulf de Faire
- Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Martin Farrall
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Division of Cardiovacular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Luigi Ferrucci
- Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
| | - Ian Ford
- Robertson Center for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
| | - Lude Franke
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, Groningen, The Netherlands
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, Netherlands
| | - Paul W. Franks
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Philippe Froguel
- CNRS UMR 8199, Lille, France
- European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, Lille, France
- Université de Lille 2, Lille, France
| | - Ron T. Gansevoort
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Medicine, Groningen, Netherlands
| | - Christian Gieger
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Henrik Grönberg
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Vilmundur Gudnason
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Ulf Gyllensten
- Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Per Hall
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Anders Hamsten
- Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Pim van der Harst
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, Groningen, The Netherlands
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, Netherlands
- Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, Interuniversity Cardiology Institute Netherlands-Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
| | - Caroline Hayward
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
| | - Markku Heliövaara
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Christian Hengstenberg
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partnersite Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
- Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, München, Germany
| | - Andrew A Hicks
- Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
| | - Aroon Hingorani
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
| | - Albert Hofman
- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Frank Hu
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Heikki V. Huikuri
- Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital, and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
| | - Kristian Hveem
- Department of Public Health and General Practice, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Pulmonary Physiology and Sleep Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
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- Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chaper Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
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- Diabetes Prevention Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Cardiovascular Research Center and Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Center for Human Genetics Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Radboud university medical center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Department for Health Evidence, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Radboud university medical center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Department of Urology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, London, United Kingdom
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Department of Medicine and Abdominal Center: Endocrinology, Helsinki, Finland
- Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland
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- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Vth Department of Medicine, Mannheim Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
- Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- QIMR Bergofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| | - Markku Laakso
- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Physiology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories and School of Medicine, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Transplantation Laboratory, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Primary Health Care Unit, Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Primary Health Care Unit, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Geriatrics Research and Education Clinical Center, Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
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- HUCH Heart and Lung Center, Division of Cardiology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
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- Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Experimental Cardiology and laboratory of clinical chemistry, UMCU, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Estonian Genome Center, Univeristy of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Helsinki, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partnersite Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Department of Neurology, General Central Hospital, Bolzano, Italy
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Departments of Epidemiology and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seatte, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
| | - Rainer Rauramaa
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts,United States of America
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Los Angeles BioMedical Resesarch Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
| | - Igor Rudan
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
| | - Hester M. den Ruijter
- Experimental Cardiology and laboratory of clinical chemistry, UMCU, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, Central Finland Central Hospital, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partnersite Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
- Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, München, Germany
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- Department of Medicine III, University of Dresden, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
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- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition, Dept of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Geriatric Research and Education Clinical Center, Vetrans Administration Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- HUCH Heart and Lung Center, Division of Cardiology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Institute of Preventive Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, The Capital Region, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- R & D VitaK Group, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- deCODE Genetics, Amgen inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases, Leipzig, Germany
- University of Leipzig, Department of Medicine, Leipzig, Germany
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Milan, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Diabetes Prevention Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Centre for Vascular Prevention, Danube-University Krems, Krems, Austria
- Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria del Hospital Universitario La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain
- Diabetes Research Group, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
- Research Unit, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Radboud university medical center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Department for Health Evidence, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud university medical center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Department for Health Evidence, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV) and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV) and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Division of Cardiovacular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- The Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology Consortium
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- The Meta-Analyses of Glucose and Insulin-related traits Consortium
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- Center for Complex Disease Genomics, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
| | - Goncalo R. Abecasis
- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
| | - Themistocles L. Assimes
- Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
| | - Inês Barroso
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Metabolic Science Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Institute of Metabolic Science Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts,United States of America
| | - Leif C. Groop
- Lund University Diabetes Centre and Department of Clinical Science, Diabetes & Endocrinology Unit, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
- Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine (FIMM), Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland
| | - David J. Hunter
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology and Popualtion Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
| | - Jeffrey R. O'Connell
- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition, Dept of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Population Health Research Institute, St George's, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- deCODE Genetics, Amgen inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), The Netherlands
- Center for Medical Systems Biology, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Divisions of Endocrinology and Genetics and Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- * E-mail: (IMH); (KEN); (IBB); (ZK); (RJFL)
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- Carolina Center for Genome Sciences and Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- * E-mail: (IMH); (KEN); (IBB); (ZK); (RJFL)
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- * E-mail: (IMH); (KEN); (IBB); (ZK); (RJFL)
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- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- * E-mail: (IMH); (KEN); (IBB); (ZK); (RJFL)
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- The Department of Preventive Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- * E-mail: (IMH); (KEN); (IBB); (ZK); (RJFL)
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Kato N, Loh M, Takeuchi F, Verweij N, Wang X, Zhang W, Kelly TN, Saleheen D, Lehne B, Leach IM, Drong AW, Abbott J, Wahl S, Tan ST, Scott WR, Campanella G, Chadeau-Hyam M, Afzal U, Ahluwalia TS, Bonder MJ, Chen P, Dehghan A, Edwards TL, Esko T, Go MJ, Harris SE, Hartiala J, Kasela S, Kasturiratne A, Khor CC, Kleber ME, Li H, Yu Mok Z, Nakatochi M, Sapari NS, Saxena R, Stewart AFR, Stolk L, Tabara Y, Teh AL, Wu Y, Wu JY, Zhang Y, Aits I, Da Silva Couto Alves A, Das S, Dorajoo R, Hopewell JC, Kim YK, Koivula RW, Luan J, Lyytikäinen LP, Nguyen QN, Pereira MA, Postmus I, Raitakari OT, Scannell Bryan M, Scott RA, Sorice R, Tragante V, Traglia M, White J, Yamamoto K, Zhang Y, Adair LS, Ahmed A, Akiyama K, Asif R, Aung T, Barroso I, Bjonnes A, Braun TR, Cai H, Chang LC, Chen CH, Cheng CY, Chong YS, Collins R, Courtney R, Davies G, Delgado G, Do LD, Doevendans PA, Gansevoort RT, Gao YT, Grammer TB, Grarup N, Grewal J, Gu D, Wander GS, Hartikainen AL, Hazen SL, He J, Heng CK, Hixson JE, Hofman A, Hsu C, Huang W, Husemoen LLN, Hwang JY, Ichihara S, Igase M, Isono M, Justesen JM, Katsuya T, Kibriya MG, Kim YJ, Kishimoto M, Koh WP, Kohara K, Kumari M, Kwek K, Lee NR, Lee J, Liao J, Lieb W, Liewald DCM, Matsubara T, Matsushita Y, Meitinger T, Mihailov E, Milani L, Mills R, Mononen N, Müller-Nurasyid M, Nabika T, Nakashima E, Ng HK, Nikus K, Nutile T, Ohkubo T, Ohnaka K, Parish S, Paternoster L, Peng H, Peters A, Pham ST, Pinidiyapathirage MJ, Rahman M, Rakugi H, Rolandsson O, Ann Rozario M, Ruggiero D, Sala CF, Sarju R, Shimokawa K, Snieder H, Sparsø T, Spiering W, Starr JM, Stott DJ, Stram DO, Sugiyama T, Szymczak S, Tang WHW, Tong L, Trompet S, Turjanmaa V, Ueshima H, Uitterlinden AG, Umemura S, Vaarasmaki M, van Dam RM, van Gilst WH, van Veldhuisen DJ, Viikari JS, Waldenberger M, Wang Y, Wang A, Wilson R, Wong TY, Xiang YB, Yamaguchi S, Ye X, Young RD, Young TL, Yuan JM, Zhou X, Asselbergs FW, Ciullo M, Clarke R, Deloukas P, Franke A, Franks PW, Franks S, Friedlander Y, Gross MD, Guo Z, Hansen T, Jarvelin MR, Jørgensen T, Jukema JW, Kähönen M, Kajio H, Kivimaki M, Lee JY, Lehtimäki T, Linneberg A, Miki T, Pedersen O, Samani NJ, Sørensen TIA, Takayanagi R, Toniolo D, Ahsan H, Allayee H, Chen YT, Danesh J, Deary IJ, Franco OH, Franke L, Heijman BT, Holbrook JD, Isaacs A, Kim BJ, Lin X, Liu J, März W, Metspalu A, Mohlke KL, Sanghera DK, Shu XO, van Meurs JBJ, Vithana E, Wickremasinghe AR, Wijmenga C, Wolffenbuttel BHW, Yokota M, Zheng W, Zhu D, Vineis P, Kyrtopoulos SA, Kleinjans JCS, McCarthy MI, Soong R, Gieger C, Scott J, Teo YY, He J, Elliott P, Tai ES, van der Harst P, Kooner JS, Chambers JC. Trans-ancestry genome-wide association study identifies 12 genetic loci influencing blood pressure and implicates a role for DNA methylation. Nat Genet 2015; 47:1282-1293. [PMID: 26390057 DOI: 10.1038/ng.3405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2015] [Accepted: 08/21/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
We carried out a trans-ancestry genome-wide association and replication study of blood pressure phenotypes among up to 320,251 individuals of East Asian, European and South Asian ancestry. We find genetic variants at 12 new loci to be associated with blood pressure (P = 3.9 × 10(-11) to 5.0 × 10(-21)). The sentinel blood pressure SNPs are enriched for association with DNA methylation at multiple nearby CpG sites, suggesting that, at some of the loci identified, DNA methylation may lie on the regulatory pathway linking sequence variation to blood pressure. The sentinel SNPs at the 12 new loci point to genes involved in vascular smooth muscle (IGFBP3, KCNK3, PDE3A and PRDM6) and renal (ARHGAP24, OSR1, SLC22A7 and TBX2) function. The new and known genetic variants predict increased left ventricular mass, circulating levels of NT-proBNP, and cardiovascular and all-cause mortality (P = 0.04 to 8.6 × 10(-6)). Our results provide new evidence for the role of DNA methylation in blood pressure regulation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Norihiro Kato
- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Marie Loh
- Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.,Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK.,Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore
| | - Fumihiko Takeuchi
- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Niek Verweij
- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Xu Wang
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore
| | - Weihua Zhang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK.,Ealing Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Trust, Middlesex, UK
| | - Tanika N Kelly
- Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
| | - Danish Saleheen
- Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan.,Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK.,Cardiovascular Institute, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Benjamin Lehne
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Irene Mateo Leach
- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Alexander W Drong
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - James Abbott
- Bioinformatics Support Service, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Simone Wahl
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Sian-Tsung Tan
- Ealing Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Trust, Middlesex, UK.,National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - William R Scott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK.,National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Gianluca Campanella
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Marc Chadeau-Hyam
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Uzma Afzal
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK.,Ealing Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Trust, Middlesex, UK
| | - Tarunveer S Ahluwalia
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood (COSPAC), Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark
| | - Marc Jan Bonder
- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Peng Chen
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore
| | - Abbas Dehghan
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Todd L Edwards
- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Center for Human Genetics Research, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
| | - Tõnu Esko
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.,Division of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Min Jin Go
- Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Osong Health Technology Administration Complex, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea
| | - Sarah E Harris
- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine and Medical Research Council (MRC) Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.,Centre for Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Jaana Hartiala
- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.,Institute for Genetic Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
| | - Silva Kasela
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | | | - Chiea-Chuen Khor
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore.,Genome Institute of Singapore, ASTAR, Singapore.,Department of Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Department of Paediatrics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Marcus E Kleber
- Medical Clinic V, Mannheim Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
| | - Huaixing Li
- Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
| | - Zuan Yu Mok
- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Masahiro Nakatochi
- Center for Advanced Medicine and Clinical Research, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
| | - Nur Sabrina Sapari
- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Richa Saxena
- Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Alexandre F R Stewart
- University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.,Ruddy Canadian Cardiovascular Genetics Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
| | - Lisette Stolk
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Yasuharu Tabara
- Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Ai Ling Teh
- Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), ASTAR, Singapore
| | - Ying Wu
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
| | - Jer-Yuarn Wu
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.,School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Yi Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai, China
| | - Imke Aits
- Institute of Epidemiology and Biobank popgen, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
| | - Alexessander Da Silva Couto Alves
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Health Protection Agency (PHE) Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Shikta Das
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Health Protection Agency (PHE) Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | | | - Jemma C Hopewell
- Clinical Trials Support Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Yun Kyoung Kim
- Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Osong Health Technology Administration Complex, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea
| | - Robert W Koivula
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Jian'an Luan
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland.,Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
| | - Quang N Nguyen
- Vietnam National Heart Institute, Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam
| | - Mark A Pereira
- School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
| | - Iris Postmus
- Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.,Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | - Olli T Raitakari
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.,Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
| | - Molly Scannell Bryan
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - Robert A Scott
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Rossella Sorice
- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics A Buzzati-Traverso, CNR, Naples, Italy
| | - Vinicius Tragante
- Division of Heart and Lungs, Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
| | - Michela Traglia
- Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.,Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) 'Burlo Garofolo', Trieste, Italy
| | - Jon White
- University College London Genetics Institute, Department of Genetics, Environment and Evolution, University College London, London, UK
| | - Ken Yamamoto
- Division of Genomics, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
| | - Yonghong Zhang
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
| | - Linda S Adair
- Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
| | | | - Koichi Akiyama
- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Rasheed Asif
- Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan
| | - Tin Aung
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
| | - Inês Barroso
- Metabolic Disease Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK.,National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.,University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
| | - Andrew Bjonnes
- Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Timothy R Braun
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
| | - Hui Cai
- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.,Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
| | - Li-Ching Chang
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
| | - Chien-Hsiun Chen
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.,School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Ching-Yu Cheng
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore.,Department of Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore.,Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Office of Clinical Sciences, Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore
| | - Yap-Seng Chong
- Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), ASTAR, Singapore.,Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Rory Collins
- Clinical Trials Support Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Regina Courtney
- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.,Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
| | - Gail Davies
- Centre for Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Graciela Delgado
- Medical Clinic V, Mannheim Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
| | - Loi D Do
- Vietnam National Heart Institute, Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam
| | - Pieter A Doevendans
- Division of Heart and Lungs, Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
| | - Ron T Gansevoort
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Yu-Tang Gao
- Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, China
| | - Tanja B Grammer
- Medical Clinic V, Mannheim Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
| | - Niels Grarup
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Jagvir Grewal
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK.,Ealing Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Trust, Middlesex, UK
| | - Dongfeng Gu
- Fu Wai Hospital and Cardiovascular Institute, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
| | - Gurpreet S Wander
- Dayanand Medical College and Hospital Unit, Hero DMC Heart Institute, Ludhiana, India
| | - Anna-Liisa Hartikainen
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.,Medical Research Center, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.,Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
| | - Stanley L Hazen
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.,Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
| | - Jing He
- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
| | - Chew-Kiat Heng
- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore
| | - James E Hixson
- Human Genetics Center, University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - Albert Hofman
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Chris Hsu
- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
| | - Wei Huang
- Department of Genetics, Chinese National Human Genomic Center, Shanghai, China
| | - Lise L N Husemoen
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
| | - Joo-Yeon Hwang
- Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Osong Health Technology Administration Complex, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea
| | - Sahoko Ichihara
- Graduate School of Regional Innovation Studies, Mie University, Tsu, Japan
| | - Michiya Igase
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan
| | - Masato Isono
- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Johanne M Justesen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Tomohiro Katsuya
- Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.,Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
| | - Muhammad G Kibriya
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - Young Jin Kim
- Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Osong Health Technology Administration Complex, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea
| | | | - Woon-Puay Koh
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore.,Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore
| | - Katsuhiko Kohara
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan
| | - Meena Kumari
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
| | | | - Nanette R Lee
- University of San Carlos Office of Population Studies Foundation, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines.,Department of Anthropology, Sociology and History, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines
| | - Jeannette Lee
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore
| | - Jiemin Liao
- Department of Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
| | - Wolfgang Lieb
- Institute of Epidemiology and Biobank popgen, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
| | - David C M Liewald
- Centre for Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Tatsuaki Matsubara
- Department of Internal Medicine, Aichi-Gakuin University School of Dentistry, Nagoya, Japan
| | - Yumi Matsushita
- National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Toyama, Japan
| | - Thomas Meitinger
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | | | - Lili Milani
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Rebecca Mills
- Ealing Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Trust, Middlesex, UK
| | - Nina Mononen
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland.,Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
| | - Martina Müller-Nurasyid
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Department of Medicine I, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
| | - Toru Nabika
- Department of Functional Pathology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Japan
| | - Eitaro Nakashima
- Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.,Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Chubu Rosai Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
| | - Hong Kiat Ng
- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Kjell Nikus
- Heart Centre, Department of Cardiology, Tampere University Hospital and University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
| | - Teresa Nutile
- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics A Buzzati-Traverso, CNR, Naples, Italy
| | - Takayoshi Ohkubo
- Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Keizo Ohnaka
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
| | - Sarah Parish
- Clinical Trials Support Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | | | - Hao Peng
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
| | - Annette Peters
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
| | - Son T Pham
- Vietnam National Heart Institute, Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam
| | | | - Mahfuzar Rahman
- UChicago Research Bangladesh, Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Research and Evaluation Division, Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee (BRAC), Dhaka, Bangladesh
| | - Hiromi Rakugi
- Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
| | - Olov Rolandsson
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section for Family Medicine, Umeå Universitet, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Michelle Ann Rozario
- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Daniela Ruggiero
- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics A Buzzati-Traverso, CNR, Naples, Italy
| | - Cinzia F Sala
- Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
| | - Ralhan Sarju
- Dayanand Medical College and Hospital Unit, Hero DMC Heart Institute, Ludhiana, India
| | - Kazuro Shimokawa
- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Harold Snieder
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Thomas Sparsø
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Wilko Spiering
- Department of Vascular Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
| | - John M Starr
- Centre for Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - David J Stott
- Academic Section of Geriatric Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
| | - Daniel O Stram
- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
| | - Takao Sugiyama
- Institute for Adult Diseases, Asahi Life Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Silke Szymczak
- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
| | - W H Wilson Tang
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.,Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
| | - Lin Tong
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - Stella Trompet
- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | - Väinö Turjanmaa
- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.,Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
| | - Hirotsugu Ueshima
- Department of Health Science, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan.,Center for Epidemiologic Research in Asia, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan
| | - André G Uitterlinden
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Satoshi Umemura
- Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
| | - Marja Vaarasmaki
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.,Medical Research Center, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.,Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
| | - Rob M van Dam
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore
| | - Wiek H van Gilst
- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Dirk J van Veldhuisen
- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Jorma S Viikari
- Division of Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.,Department of Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
| | - Melanie Waldenberger
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Yiqin Wang
- Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
| | - Aili Wang
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
| | - Rory Wilson
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Tien-Yin Wong
- Department of Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
| | - Yong-Bing Xiang
- Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, China
| | - Shuhei Yamaguchi
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Japan
| | - Xingwang Ye
- Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
| | - Robin D Young
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
| | - Terri L Young
- Neuroscience and Behavioural Disorders (NBD) Program, Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore.,Duke Eye Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
| | - Jian-Min Yuan
- Cancer Control and Population Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Xueya Zhou
- Bioinformatics Division, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Informatics Science and Technology (TNLIST), Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.,Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, TNLIST, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
| | - Folkert W Asselbergs
- Division of Heart and Lungs, Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.,Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN)-Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands.,Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, London, UK
| | - Marina Ciullo
- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics A Buzzati-Traverso, CNR, Naples, Italy
| | - Robert Clarke
- Clinical Trials Support Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Panos Deloukas
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.,King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
| | - Andre Franke
- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
| | - Paul W Franks
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden.,Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section for Family Medicine, Umeå Universitet, Umeå, Sweden.,Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Steve Franks
- Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
| | | | - Myron D Gross
- School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
| | - Zhirong Guo
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
| | - Torben Hansen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
- Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.,Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Health Protection Agency (PHE) Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.,Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.,Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.,Center for Life Course Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
| | - Torben Jørgensen
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
| | - J Wouter Jukema
- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.,Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN)-Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands.,ICIN, Utrecht, the Netherlands
| | - Mika Kähönen
- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.,Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
| | - Hiroshi Kajio
- National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Toyama, Japan
| | - Mika Kivimaki
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
| | - Jong-Young Lee
- Ministry of Health and Welfare, Seoul, Republic of Korea.,THERAGEN ETEX Bio Institute, Suwon, Republic of Korea
| | - Terho Lehtimäki
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland.,Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
| | - Allan Linneberg
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark.,Department of Clinical Experimental Research, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Tetsuro Miki
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan
| | - Oluf Pedersen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Nilesh J Samani
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK.,NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
| | - Thorkild I A Sørensen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.,Institute of Preventive Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Ryoichi Takayanagi
- Department of Medicine and Bioregulatory Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan
| | - Daniela Toniolo
- Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.,Institute of Molecular Genetics, National Research Council (CNR), Pavia, Italy
| | | | | | | | | | - Habibul Ahsan
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - Hooman Allayee
- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.,Institute for Genetic Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
| | - Yuan-Tsong Chen
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
| | - John Danesh
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK.,Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
| | - Ian J Deary
- Centre for Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Oscar H Franco
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Lude Franke
- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Bastiaan T Heijman
- Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | | | - Aaron Isaacs
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Bong-Jo Kim
- Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Osong Health Technology Administration Complex, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea
| | - Xu Lin
- Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
| | - Jianjun Liu
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore.,Genome Institute of Singapore, ASTAR, Singapore
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- Medical Clinic V, Mannheim Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.,Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.,Synlab Academy, Synlab Services, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
| | - Xiao-Ou Shu
- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.,Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore.,Neuroscience and Behavioural Disorders (NBD) Program, Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore
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- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Endocrinology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Genome Science, Aichi-Gakuin University School of Dentistry, Nagoya, Japan
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.,Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Toxicogenomics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Richie Soong
- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Department of Pathology, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore.,Genome Institute of Singapore, ASTAR, Singapore.,Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore.,National University of Singapore Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore.,Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.,Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.,Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.,Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN)-Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Ealing Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Trust, Middlesex, UK.,National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.,Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK.,Ealing Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Trust, Middlesex, UK.,Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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Abstract
Homozygosity has long been associated with rare, often devastating, Mendelian disorders, and Darwin was one of the first to recognize that inbreeding reduces evolutionary fitness. However, the effect of the more distant parental relatedness that is common in modern human populations is less well understood. Genomic data now allow us to investigate the effects of homozygosity on traits of public health importance by observing contiguous homozygous segments (runs of homozygosity), which are inferred to be homozygous along their complete length. Given the low levels of genome-wide homozygosity prevalent in most human populations, information is required on very large numbers of people to provide sufficient power. Here we use runs of homozygosity to study 16 health-related quantitative traits in 354,224 individuals from 102 cohorts, and find statistically significant associations between summed runs of homozygosity and four complex traits: height, forced expiratory lung volume in one second, general cognitive ability and educational attainment (P < 1 × 10(-300), 2.1 × 10(-6), 2.5 × 10(-10) and 1.8 × 10(-10), respectively). In each case, increased homozygosity was associated with decreased trait value, equivalent to the offspring of first cousins being 1.2 cm shorter and having 10 months' less education. Similar effect sizes were found across four continental groups and populations with different degrees of genome-wide homozygosity, providing evidence that homozygosity, rather than confounding, directly contributes to phenotypic variance. Contrary to earlier reports in substantially smaller samples, no evidence was seen of an influence of genome-wide homozygosity on blood pressure and low density lipoprotein cholesterol, or ten other cardio-metabolic traits. Since directional dominance is predicted for traits under directional evolutionary selection, this study provides evidence that increased stature and cognitive function have been positively selected in human evolution, whereas many important risk factors for late-onset complex diseases may not have been.
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- Peter K Joshi
- Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, Scotland
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Division of Endocrinology and Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Cambridge, 02141, MA, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge Center 7, Cambridge, 02242, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, 02115, MA, USA
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- Unit of Public Health Genomics, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 104, Helsinki, FI-00251, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 20, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
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- Unit of Public Health Genomics, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 104, Helsinki, FI-00251, Finland
| | - Ilaria Gandin
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Strada di Fiume 447 - Osp. di Cattinara, Trieste, 34149, Italy
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- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "A. Buzzati-Traverso" CNR, via Pietro Castellino, 111, Naples, 80131, Italy
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109, MI, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, 10029, USA
- The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, 10029, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Holtasmari 1, 201, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Uxbridge Road, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics and Disease Diversity, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
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- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, 70210 Kuopio, Finland
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- Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 426 Thompson Street, 48104, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 1415 Washington Heights, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Biostatistics and Medicine, University of Washington, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1360, Seattle, 98101, WA, USA
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- Institute of Population Genetics, National Research Council, Trav. La Crucca n. 3 - Reg. Baldinca, Sassari, 07100, Italy
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- Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, 137 E. Franklin St., Suite 306, 27599-8050, Chapel Hill, USA
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- Immunology, Genetics & Pathology, Uppsala University, Husargatan 3, Box 815, Uppsala, SE-751 08, Sweden
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, EH4 2XU, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center , PO Box 9600, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences , Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, 1124 W. Carson Street, Torrance, 90502, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, 90502, USA
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 900 Commonwealth Avenue, East, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition and Program for Personalised and Genomic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 Baltimore St. MSTF, Baltimore, 21201, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 27, Lausanne, 1005, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Quartier Sorge - batiment génopode, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
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- Genomic Research on Complex Diseases (GRC) Group, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Habshiguda, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, 500007, India
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, 02118, MA, USA
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- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, South Wing, Block D, 3rd Floor, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK
- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre , Guy's and St. Thomas' Foundation Trust, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK
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- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "A. Buzzati-Traverso" CNR, via Pietro Castellino, 111, Naples, 80131, Italy
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- Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Via Olgettina 58, Milano, 20132, Italy
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- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University of Athens, 70, El. Venizelou Ave, Athens, 17671, Greece
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Str. 15A, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- Center for Human Genetic Research , 55 Fruit Street, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2114, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 2040, Rotterdam, 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 27599, NC, USA
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- Genomics and Molecular Medicine, CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Mathura Road, New Delhi, 110025, India
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- The GeneSTAR Research Program, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, 21287, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, 4444 Forest Park Boulevard, Saint Louis, 63108, MO, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Clinical Division of Neurogeriatrics, Medical University Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 22, Graz, A-8036, Austria
- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University Graz, Auenbruggerplatz2, Graz, A-8036, Austria
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- Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, 3000 DR, The Netherlands
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- Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, CMM L8:03, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Stockholm, 171 76, Sweden
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, 181 Longwood, Boston, 02115, USA
- Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, Boston, 02215, USA
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- Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy - Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Hanzeplein 1, Groningen, 9700RB, The Netherlands
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, Neuherberg, 85764, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, Neuherberg, 85764, Germany
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, Neuherberg, 85764, Germany
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Strada di Fiume 447 - Osp. di Cattinara, Trieste, 34149, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 N. State St., Jackson, 39216, MS, USA
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- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo", via dell'Istria 65, Trieste, 34137, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 2040, Rotterdam, 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, 60 Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane Qld 4001, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, 53226, WI, USA
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- Quantitative Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Rd, Herston, Brisbane, 4006, Australia
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- Quantitative Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Rd, Herston, Brisbane, 4006, Australia
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e della Riproduzione, University of Verona, Strada Le Grazie 15, Verona, 37134, Italy
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Lille 2 University, 1 Rue du Professeur Calmette, 59000, Lille, France
| | - Lawrence F Bielak
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 1415 Washington Heights, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1665 University Blvd, Birmingham, 35294, AL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, P.O. box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, Building 12A/Room 4047, 12 South Dr., Bethesda, 20892, Maryland, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850, MD, USA
- Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick,MD, USA
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, Berlin, 14195, Germany
- Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestr. 72, Berlin, 14195, Germany
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- Charité Research Group on Geriatrics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Reinickendorferstr. 61, 13347, Berlin, Germany
- Institute of Medical and Human Genetics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin, 13353, Germany
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Division of Population Health Sciences, Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Ninewells hospital and School of Medicine, Dundee, DD2 4BF, Scotland
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- Experimental Cardiology, Division Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, Utrecht, 3584 CX, The Netherlands
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3615 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Barrack Road, Exeter, EX2 5DW, UK
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Lille 2 University, 1 Rue du Professeur Calmette, 59000, Lille, France
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- Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- The Danish Pediatric Asthma Center, Gentofte Hospital, The Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Novo Nordisk Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 1, Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, BHF Cardiovascular Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, via A. di Rudinì 8, 20142 Milan, Italy
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- Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Western Australia, Lions Eye Institute, 2 Verdun St, Perth, 6009, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, Copenhagen, 2300, Denmark
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- Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, PO Box 9600, Leiden, 2300RC, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, 920 E. 58th Street, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Uxbridge Road, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK
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- Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, 92093, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 2040, Rotterdam, 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Division Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, Utrecht, 3584 CX, The Netherlands
- Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, ICIN-Netherlands Heart Institute, Catharijnesingel 52, Utrecht, 3501 DG, The Netherlands
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Internal Medicine, Hanzeplein 1, Groningen, 9700RB, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University, 622 W. 168th Street, New York, 10032, NY, USA
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, W.-Rathenau-Str. 48, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
| | - Daniel J Benjamin
- Department of Economics, Cornell University, 480 Uris Hall, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
- Department of Economics and Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, 314C Dauterive Hall, 635 Downey Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
| | - Sven Bergmann
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 27, Lausanne, 1005, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Quartier Sorge - batiment génopode, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 1200 Pressler St., Suite 453E, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA
| | - Erwin P Bottinger
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, 10029, USA
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, 21205, MD, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology and Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Cambridge, 02141, MA, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge Center 7, Cambridge, 02242, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, 02115, MA, USA
| | - Stephen J Chanock
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850, MD, USA
| | - Constance Chen
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, 02115, USA
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences , Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, 1124 W. Carson Street, Torrance, 90502, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, 90502, USA
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- Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, 20892, MD, USA
| | - John Connell
- College of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, College Office, Level 10, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK
| | - Adolfo Correa
- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 N. State St., Jackson, 39216, MS, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, 02118, MA, USA
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, 73 Mt. Wayte Ave, Framingham, 01702, MA, USA
| | - George Davey Smith
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK
| | - Gail Davies
- Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Ferdinand-Sauerbruch-Str. NK, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, 21205, MD, USA
- Cardiology, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 4, Genève 14, 1211, Switzerland
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, 10029, USA
| | - Bjarke Feenstra
- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, Copenhagen, 2300, Denmark
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, 4444 Forest Park Boulevard, Saint Louis, 63108, MO, USA
| | - Ian Ford
- Robertson Centre, University of Glasgow, Boyd Orr Building, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland
| | - Caroline S Fox
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, 73 Mt. Wayte Ave, Framingham, 01702, MA, USA
- Division of Endocrinology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School , 75 Francis St, Boston, 02115, MA, USA
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- Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Barrack Road, Exeter, EX2 5DW, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Ferdinand-Sauerbruch-Str. NK, 17475, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, Copenhagen, 2300, Denmark
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, South Wing, Block D, 3rd Floor, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, 10029, USA
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- Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, 137 E Franklin St., Suite 306, USA
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- Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, Boston, 02215, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University, 660 S Euclid, St Louis, 63110, MO, USA
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, EH4 2XU, Edinburgh, UK
- Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, Scotland
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- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, South Wing, Block D, 3rd Floor, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
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- National Institutes on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, EH4 2XU, Edinburgh, UK
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, 73 Mt. Wayte Ave, Framingham, 01702, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord St, Boston, 02118, MA, USA
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- Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Hjelt Institute, P.O.Box 41, Mannerheimintie 172, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
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- Musculoskeletal Research Programme, Division of Applied Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Str. 15A, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Rui Jin Hospital Affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 197 Rui Jin Er Road, Shanghai, 200025 China
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, EH4 2XU, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, South Wing, Block D, 3rd Floor, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 2040, Rotterdam, 3000 CA, The Netherlands
- Department of Radiology, Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 2040, Rotterdam, 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK
- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Unit of Public Health Genomics, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 104, Helsinki, FI-00251, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 20, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
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- Immunology, Genetics & Pathology, Uppsala University, Husargatan 3, Box 815, Uppsala, SE-751 08, Sweden
- Uppsala Clinical Research Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SE-75237, Sweden
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- Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 30, Helsinki, FI-00271, Finland
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- Department of Cardiology C5-P , Leiden University Medical Center, PO Box 9600, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, P.O. Box 2000, Tampere, 33521, Finland
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, EH4 2XU, Edinburgh, UK
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- Genomics and Molecular Medicine, CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Mathura Road, New Delhi, 110025, India
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- Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, 3000 DR, The Netherlands
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- Diabetes Prevention Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 30, FI-00271 Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, P.O.Box 340, Haartmaninkatu 4, Helsinki, FI-00029, Finland
- Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Biomedicum 2U, Tukholmankatu 8, Helsinki, FI-00290, Finland
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- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Uxbridge Road, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK
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- Laboratory for Genotyping Development RCfIMS, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
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- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, 70210, Finland
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- Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Folkhälsan Reasearch Centre, PB 63, Helsinki, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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- National Institutes on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, 60 Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane Qld 4001, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories and School of Medicine University of Tampere, Tampere, 33520, Finland
| | - David C M Liewald
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University Hospital, Uppsala, 75185, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK
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- Transplantation laboratory, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 21, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, RTP, NC, USA
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- Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, 243 Charles St, Boston, 02114, USA
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- Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Hjelt Institute, P.O.Box 41, Mannerheimintie 172, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, 10029, USA
- The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, 10029, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, 303.325 Science Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand
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- Department of Health, Functional Capacity and Welfare, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 30, Helsinki, FI-00271, Finland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Route du Bugnon 44, Lausanne, 1011, Switzerland
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, UK
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- The GeneSTAR Research Program, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, 21287, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital , 50 Staniford St, Boston, 02114, MA, USA
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, Neuherberg, 85764, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, Neuherberg, 85764 Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Ismaninger Str. 22, München, 81675, Germany
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- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, South Wing, Block D, 3rd Floor, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3615 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition and Program for Personalised and Genomic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 Baltimore St. MSTF, Baltimore, 21201, USA
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- Molecular Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Rd, Herston, Brisbane, 4006, Australia
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 1200 Pressler St., Suite 453E, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA
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- Genome Science Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 East Concord Street, E-304, Boston, 2118, MA, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, 10029, USA
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, EH4 2XU, Edinburgh, UK
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- HUCH Heart and Lung center, Helsinki University Central Hospital, P.O. Box 340, Helsinki, FI-00029, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, P.O. box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, 73 Mt. Wayte Ave, Framingham, 01702, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University, 622 W. 168th Street, New York, 10032, NY, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health , University of Minnesota , 1300 S 2nd Street, Minneapolis, 55454, USA
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- Centre for Global Health and Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Split, Soltanska 2, 21000 Split, Croatia
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- Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy - Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 1415 Washington Heights, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 20, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
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- Obesity Research Unit, Research Programs Unit, Diabetes and Obesity, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 63, Haartmaninkatu 8, FI-00014, Helsinki, Finland
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- International Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1LA, UK
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- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Cardiology and Cardio thoracic Surgery Hero DMC Heart Institute, Civil Lines, 141001, Ludhiana, India
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- Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Department Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 3232 West Complex, Charlottesville, 22908, USA
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- Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 30, Helsinki, FI-00271, Finland
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- Unit of Public Health Genomics, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 104, Helsinki, FI-00251, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 20, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
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- Center for Human Genetic Research , 55 Fruit Street, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2114, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Medical University Graz, Harrachgasse 21, Graz, A-8010, Austria
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109, MI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Uxbridge Road, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK
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- Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, CMM L8:03, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Stockholm, 171 76, Sweden
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, 73 Mt. Wayte Ave, Framingham, 01702, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord St, Boston, 02118, MA, USA
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- International Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1LA, UK
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- Genomic Research on Complex Diseases (GRC) Group, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Habshiguda, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, 500007, India
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- University of Dundee, Kirsty Semple Way, Dundee, DD2 4DB, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 1415 Washington Heights, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, Neuherberg, 85764, Germany
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- Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, CMM L8:03, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Stockholm, 171 76, Sweden
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK
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Chambers JC, Loh M, Lehne B, Drong A, Kriebel J, Motta V, Wahl S, Elliott HR, Rota F, Scott WR, Zhang W, Tan ST, Campanella G, Chadeau-Hyam M, Yengo L, Richmond RC, Adamowicz-Brice M, Afzal U, Bozaoglu K, Mok ZY, Ng HK, Pattou F, Prokisch H, Rozario MA, Tarantini L, Abbott J, Ala-Korpela M, Albetti B, Ammerpohl O, Bertazzi PA, Blancher C, Caiazzo R, Danesh J, Gaunt TR, de Lusignan S, Gieger C, Illig T, Jha S, Jones S, Jowett J, Kangas AJ, Kasturiratne A, Kato N, Kotea N, Kowlessur S, Pitkäniemi J, Punjabi P, Saleheen D, Schafmayer C, Soininen P, Tai ES, Thorand B, Tuomilehto J, Wickremasinghe AR, Kyrtopoulos SA, Aitman TJ, Herder C, Hampe J, Cauchi S, Relton CL, Froguel P, Soong R, Vineis P, Jarvelin MR, Scott J, Grallert H, Bollati V, Elliott P, McCarthy MI, Kooner JS. Epigenome-wide association of DNA methylation markers in peripheral blood from Indian Asians and Europeans with incident type 2 diabetes: a nested case-control study. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2015; 3:526-534. [PMID: 26095709 PMCID: PMC4724884 DOI: 10.1016/s2213-8587(15)00127-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 326] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2014] [Revised: 02/26/2015] [Accepted: 04/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Indian Asians, who make up a quarter of the world's population, are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. We investigated whether DNA methylation is associated with future type 2 diabetes incidence in Indian Asians and whether differences in methylation patterns between Indian Asians and Europeans are associated with, and could be used to predict, differences in the magnitude of risk of developing type 2 diabetes. METHODS We did a nested case-control study of DNA methylation in Indian Asians and Europeans with incident type 2 diabetes who were identified from the 8-year follow-up of 25 372 participants in the London Life Sciences Prospective Population (LOLIPOP) study. Patients were recruited between May 1, 2002, and Sept 12, 2008. We did epigenome-wide association analysis using samples from Indian Asians with incident type 2 diabetes and age-matched and sex-matched Indian Asian controls, followed by replication testing of top-ranking signals in Europeans. For both discovery and replication, DNA methylation was measured in the baseline blood sample, which was collected before the onset of type 2 diabetes. Epigenome-wide significance was set at p<1 × 10(-7). We compared methylation levels between Indian Asian and European controls without type 2 diabetes at baseline to estimate the potential contribution of DNA methylation to increased risk of future type 2 diabetes incidence among Indian Asians. FINDINGS 1608 (11·9%) of 13 535 Indian Asians and 306 (4·3%) of 7066 Europeans developed type 2 diabetes over a mean of 8·5 years (SD 1·8) of follow-up. The age-adjusted and sex-adjusted incidence of type 2 diabetes was 3·1 times (95% CI 2·8-3·6; p<0·0001) higher among Indian Asians than among Europeans, and remained 2·5 times (2·1-2·9; p<0·0001) higher after adjustment for adiposity, physical activity, family history of type 2 diabetes, and baseline glycaemic measures. The mean absolute difference in methylation level between type 2 diabetes cases and controls ranged from 0·5% (SD 0·1) to 1·1% (0·2). Methylation markers at five loci were associated with future type 2 diabetes incidence; the relative risk per 1% increase in methylation was 1·09 (95% CI 1·07-1·11; p=1·3 × 10(-17)) for ABCG1, 0·94 (0·92-0·95; p=4·2 × 10(-11)) for PHOSPHO1, 0·94 (0·92-0·96; p=1·4 × 10(-9)) for SOCS3, 1·07 (1·04-1·09; p=2·1 × 10(-10)) for SREBF1, and 0·92 (0·90-0·94; p=1·2 × 10(-17)) for TXNIP. A methylation score combining results for the five loci was associated with future type 2 diabetes incidence (relative risk quartile 4 vs quartile 1 3·51, 95% CI 2·79-4·42; p=1·3 × 10(-26)), and was independent of established risk factors. Methylation score was higher among Indian Asians than Europeans (p=1 × 10(-34)). INTERPRETATION DNA methylation might provide new insights into the pathways underlying type 2 diabetes and offer new opportunities for risk stratification and prevention of type 2 diabetes among Indian Asians. FUNDING The European Union, the UK National Institute for Health Research, the Wellcome Trust, the UK Medical Research Council, Action on Hearing Loss, the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Oak Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, the German Research Center for Environmental Health, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the German Center for Diabetes Research, the Munich Center for Health Sciences, the Ministry of Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the German Federal Ministry of Health.
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Affiliation(s)
- John C Chambers
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Marie Loh
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Benjamin Lehne
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Alexander Drong
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Jennifer Kriebel
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Valeria Motta
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Simone Wahl
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Hannah R Elliott
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Federica Rota
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - William R Scott
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Weihua Zhang
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Sian-Tsung Tan
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Gianluca Campanella
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Marc Chadeau-Hyam
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Loic Yengo
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Rebecca C Richmond
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Martyna Adamowicz-Brice
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Uzma Afzal
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Kiymet Bozaoglu
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Zuan Yu Mok
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Hong Kiat Ng
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - François Pattou
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Holger Prokisch
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Michelle Ann Rozario
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Letizia Tarantini
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - James Abbott
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Mika Ala-Korpela
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Benedetta Albetti
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Ole Ammerpohl
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Pier Alberto Bertazzi
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Christine Blancher
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Robert Caiazzo
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - John Danesh
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Tom R Gaunt
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Simon de Lusignan
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Christian Gieger
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Thomas Illig
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Sujeet Jha
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Simon Jones
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Jeremy Jowett
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Antti J Kangas
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Anuradhani Kasturiratne
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Norihiro Kato
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Navaratnam Kotea
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Sudhir Kowlessur
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Janne Pitkäniemi
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Prakash Punjabi
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Danish Saleheen
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Clemens Schafmayer
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Pasi Soininen
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - E-Shyong Tai
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Barbara Thorand
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Jaakko Tuomilehto
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Ananda Rajitha Wickremasinghe
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Soterios A Kyrtopoulos
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Timothy J Aitman
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Christian Herder
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Jochen Hampe
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Stéphane Cauchi
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Caroline L Relton
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Philippe Froguel
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Richie Soong
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Paolo Vineis
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
| | - James Scott
- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
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- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
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- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
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- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
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- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
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- (J C Chambers PhD, M Loh PhD, B Lehne PhD, W R Scott MRCP, W Zhang PhD, G Campanella MSc, M Chadeau-Hyam PhD, U Afzal MRCP, Prof P Froguel PhD, Prof P Vineis MD, Prof M-R Jarvelin PhD, Prof P Elliott PhD) (J C Chambers, Prof M-R Jarvelin, Prof P Elliott, Prof J S Kooner FRCP) (W R Scott, S-T Tan MRCP, Prof J Scott PhD, Prof J S Kooner) (J Abbott PhD) (J C Chambers, W Zhang, S-T Tan, U Afzal, Prof J S Kooner) (J C Chambers, P Punjabi FRCS, Prof J S Kooner) (M Loh) (C Blancher PhD) (A Drong PhD, Prof M I McCarthy MD) (Prof M I McCarthy) (J Kriebel PhD, S Wahl MSc, C Gieger PhD, H Grallert PhD) (C Gieger) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, C Gieger, B Thorand PhD, H Grallert) (H Prokisch PhD) (J Kriebel, S Wahl, B Thorand, H Grallert) (V Motta PhD, F Rota PhD, L Tarantini PhD, B Albetti PhD, Prof P A Bertazzi MD, V Bollati PhD) (Prof M Ala-Korpela PhD) (H R Elliott Dip Biol, R C Richmond BA, R Caiazzo PhD, T R Gaunt FRCP, Prof C L Relton PhD) (L Yengo PhD, Prof F Pattou PhD, R Caiazzo, S Cauchi PhD, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (L Yengo, Prof F Pattou, S Cauchi, Prof P Froguel) (M Adamowicz-Brice PhD, Prof T J Aitman PhD) (K Bozaoglu PhD, R Caiazzo, J Jowett PhD) (Z Y Mok BSc, H K Ng BSc, M A Rozario BSc, R Soong PhD) (E-S Tai PhD) (E-S Tai) (Prof F Pattou) (H Prokisch) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, A J Kangas MSc, P Soininen PhD) (M Loh, Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela, P Soininen) (Prof M-R Jarvelin) (Prof M Ala-Korpela) (Prof O Ammerpohl PhD) (Prof C Schafmayer MD) (Prof J Danesh FRCP) (Prof S de Lusignan PhD, Prof S Jones PhD) (Prof T Illig PhD) (S Jha MRCP) (A Kasturiratne MD, Prof A R Wickremasinghe PhD) (N Kato PhD) (N Kotea PhD) (S Kowlessur Dip Pub Health Admin) (J Pitkäniemi PhD) (Prof J Tuomilehto PhD) (J Pitkäniemi) (D Saleheen PhD) (D Saleheen) (D Saleheen) (E-S Tai) (Prof S A Kyrtopoulos PhD) (C Herder PhD) (C Herder) (Prof J Hampe MD) (R Soong) (Prof P Vineis) (Prof M I McCarthy)
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Chambers JC, Abbott J, Zhang W, Turro E, Scott WR, Tan ST, Afzal U, Afaq S, Loh M, Lehne B, O'Reilly P, Gaulton KJ, Pearson RD, Li X, Lavery A, Vandrovcova J, Wass MN, Miller K, Sehmi J, Oozageer L, Kooner IK, Al-Hussaini A, Mills R, Grewal J, Panoulas V, Lewin AM, Northwood K, Wander GS, Geoghegan F, Li Y, Wang J, Aitman TJ, McCarthy MI, Scott J, Butcher S, Elliott P, Kooner JS. The South Asian genome. PLoS One 2014; 9:e102645. [PMID: 25115870 PMCID: PMC4130493 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2013] [Accepted: 06/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
The genetic sequence variation of people from the Indian subcontinent who comprise one-quarter of the world's population, is not well described. We carried out whole genome sequencing of 168 South Asians, along with whole-exome sequencing of 147 South Asians to provide deeper characterisation of coding regions. We identify 12,962,155 autosomal sequence variants, including 2,946,861 new SNPs and 312,738 novel indels. This catalogue of SNPs and indels amongst South Asians provides the first comprehensive map of genetic variation in this major human population, and reveals evidence for selective pressures on genes involved in skin biology, metabolism, infection and immunity. Our results will accelerate the search for the genetic variants underlying susceptibility to disorders such as type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease which are highly prevalent amongst South Asians.
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- John C. Chambers
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
- Computational Biology and Statistics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- NHLI, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- NHLI, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Hero DMC Heart Institute, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, India
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- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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- MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- NHLI, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- NHLI, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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Karra E, O'Daly OG, Choudhury AI, Yousseif A, Millership S, Neary MT, Scott WR, Chandarana K, Manning S, Hess ME, Iwakura H, Akamizu T, Millet Q, Gelegen C, Drew ME, Rahman S, Emmanuel JJ, Williams SCR, Rüther UU, Brüning JC, Withers DJ, Zelaya FO, Batterham RL. A link between FTO, ghrelin, and impaired brain food-cue responsivity. J Clin Invest 2013; 123:3539-51. [PMID: 23867619 DOI: 10.1172/jci44403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 256] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2013] [Accepted: 05/17/2013] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Polymorphisms in the fat mass and obesity-associated gene (FTO) are associated with human obesity and obesity-prone behaviors, including increased food intake and a preference for energy-dense foods. FTO demethylates N6-methyladenosine, a potential regulatory RNA modification, but the mechanisms by which FTO predisposes humans to obesity remain unclear. In adiposity-matched, normal-weight humans, we showed that subjects homozygous for the FTO "obesity-risk" rs9939609 A allele have dysregulated circulating levels of the orexigenic hormone acyl-ghrelin and attenuated postprandial appetite reduction. Using functional MRI (fMRI) in normal-weight AA and TT humans, we found that the FTO genotype modulates the neural responses to food images in homeostatic and brain reward regions. Furthermore, AA and TT subjects exhibited divergent neural responsiveness to circulating acyl-ghrelin within brain regions that regulate appetite, reward processing, and incentive motivation. In cell models, FTO overexpression reduced ghrelin mRNA N6-methyladenosine methylation, concomitantly increasing ghrelin mRNA and peptide levels. Furthermore, peripheral blood cells from AA human subjects exhibited increased FTO mRNA, reduced ghrelin mRNA N6-methyladenosine methylation, and increased ghrelin mRNA abundance compared with TT subjects. Our findings show that FTO regulates ghrelin, a key mediator of ingestive behavior, and offer insight into how FTO obesity-risk alleles predispose to increased energy intake and obesity in humans.
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- Efthimia Karra
- Centre for Obesity Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Scott WR, Batterham RL. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: understanding weight loss and improvements in type 2 diabetes after bariatric surgery. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2011; 301:R15-27. [PMID: 21474429 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00038.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Obesity increases the likelihood of diseases like type 2 diabetes (T2D), heart disease, and cancer, and is one of the most serious public health problems of this century. In contrast to ineffectual prevention strategies, lifestyle modifications, and pharmacological therapies, bariatric surgery is a very effective treatment for morbid obesity and also markedly improves associated comorbidities like T2D. However, weight loss and resolution of T2D after bariatric surgery is heterogeneous and specific to type of bariatric procedure performed. Conventional mechanisms like intestinal malabsorption and gastric restriction do not fully explain this, and potent changes in appetite and the enteroinsular axis, as a result of anatomical reorganization and altered hormonal, neuronal, and nutrient signaling, are the portended cause. Uniquely these signaling changes appear to override vigorous homeostatic defenses of stable body weight and compelling self-gratifying motivations to eat and to reverse defects in beta-cell function and insulin sensitivity. Here we review mechanisms of weight loss and T2D resolution after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy bariatric surgery, two markedly different procedures with robust clinical outcomes.
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- William R Scott
- Centre for Obesity Research, Dept. of Medicine, Rayne Institute, University College London, WC1E 6JJ, UK
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Patel A, Scott WR, Lympany PA, Rippin JD, Gill GV, Barnett AH, Bain SC. The TGF-beta 1 gene codon 10 polymorphism contributes to the genetic predisposition to nephropathy in Type 1 diabetes. Diabet Med 2005; 22:69-73. [PMID: 15606694 DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2005.01376.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIMS We hypothesize that transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta), a multifunctional growth factor which plays a key role in the development of tissue fibrosis, may be involved in the pathophysiology of diabetic nephropathy. Our aim was to examine three polymorphisms within the TGF-beta 1 gene, in codons 10, 25 and 263, for association with nephropathy in Type 1 diabetes. METHODS We conducted a large case-control study using cases with Type 1 diabetes and clinical nephropathy. Controls were Type 1 diabetic subjects who have been injecting insulin for at least 50 years and have extremely low risk of nephropathy. Genotyping was by polymerase chain reaction with sequence-specific primers. RESULTS There was a significant difference in the frequency of the TGF-beta 1 codon 10 genotypes in the diabetic nephropathy group (n = 420) when compared with the controls (n = 410, P = 0.007). There were no significant differences when the frequencies of the TGF-beta1 codons 25 and 263 genotypes in the diabetic nephropathy group were compared with the control group. CONCLUSIONS In our study the TGF-beta 1 codon 10 polymorphism is associated with nephropathy in Type 1 diabetes and variation in this gene may contribute to the genetic predisposition to this complication in Type 1 diabetes.
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- A Patel
- Division of Medical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, UK.
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BACKGROUND The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) protease is an essential viral protein that is a major drug target in the fight against Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Access to the active site of this homodimeric enzyme is gained when two large flaps, one from each monomer, open. The flap movements are therefore central to the function of the enzyme, yet determining how these flaps move at an atomic level has not been experimentally possible. RESULTS In the present study, we observe the flaps of HIV-1 protease completely opening during a 10 ns solvated molecular dynamics simulation starting from the unliganded crystal structure. This movement is on the time scale observed by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) relaxation data. The highly flexible tips of the flaps, with the sequence Gly-Gly-Ile-Gly-Gly, are seen curling back into the protein and thereby burying many hydrophobic residues. CONCLUSIONS This curled-in conformational change has never been previously described. Previous models of this movement, with the flaps as rigid levers, are not consistent with the experimental data. The residues that participate in this hydrophobic cluster as a result of the conformational change are highly sensitive to mutation and often contribute to drug resistance when they do change. However, several of these residues are not part of the active site cavity, and their essential role in causing drug resistance could possibly be rationalized if this conformational change actually occurs. Trapping HIV-1 protease in this inactive conformation would provide a unique opportunity for future drug design.
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- W R Scott
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655, USA
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Scott WR. Sharing ideas. J Can Dent Assoc 2000; 66:410. [PMID: 11040523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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Scott WR, Lloyd WC, Benedict JV, Meredith R. Ocular injuries due to projectile impacts. Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 2000; 44:205-17. [PMID: 11558084 PMCID: PMC3217394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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An animal model has been developed using enucleated porcine eyes to evaluate ocular trauma. The eyes were pressurized to approximately 18 mmHg and mounted in a container with a 10% gelatin mixture. The corneas of sixteen pressurized eyes were impacted by a blunt metal projectile (mass of 2.6 gm, 3.5 gm or 45.5 gm) at velocities of 4.0 to 38.1 m/s. The impacted eyes were evaluated by an ophthalmologist. A numerical classification scheme was used to categorize the severity of the ocular injury. A chi-squared test indicates that the injury level is associated with the kinetic energy (KE) and not the momentum of the projectile. The enucleated eyes began to experience lens dislocations when the KE of the projectile was approximately 0.75 Nm, and retinal injuries when the KE was approximately 1.20 Nm.
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- W R Scott
- Biodynamic Research Corporation, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Introducing experimental values as restraints into molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to bias the values of particular molecular properties, such as nuclear Overhauser effect intensities or distances, (3)J coupling constants, chemical shifts or crystallographic structure factors, towards experimental values is a widely used structure refinement method. To account for the averaging of experimentally derived quantities inherent in the experimental techniques, time-averaging restraining methods may be used. In the case of structure refinement using (3)J coupling constants from NMR experiments, time-averaging methods previously proposed can suffer from large artificially induced structural fluctuations. A modified time-averaged restraining potential energy function is proposed which overcomes this problem. The different possible approaches are compared using stochastic dynamics simulations of antamanide, a cyclic peptide of ten residues.
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- W R Scott
- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Morris M, Brader KR, Levenback C, Burke TW, Atkinson EN, Scott WR, Gershenson DM. Phase II study of vinorelbine in advanced and recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix. J Clin Oncol 1998; 16:1094-8. [PMID: 9508195 DOI: 10.1200/jco.1998.16.3.1094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of intravenous vinorelbine as single-agent chemotherapy in patients with advanced or recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between August 1993 and July 1995, 35 patients with advanced or recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix were entered onto this study. Patients had received no prior therapeutic chemotherapy. The initial dose of vinorelbine 30 mg/m2 was administered as a weekly intravenous infusion. Subsequent doses were unchanged, reduced, escalated, or omitted according to observed toxicity. Patients were evaluated for response and toxicity using standard Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) and World Health Organization criteria, respectively. RESULTS Thirty-three of 35 patients were assessable for response and 35 of 35 for toxicity. The overall response rate was 18% (one complete response [CR], five partial responses [PR]). The mean response duration was 5.2 months and the median survival from treatment for all patients was 11.0 months. The major toxicity was leukopenia, with 61% of patients who had grade 3 or 4. Gastrointestinal and neurotoxicity were infrequent and mild. CONCLUSION Vinorelbine has moderate activity in advanced or recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix. Further studies of combination regimens with this agent are justified in this patient population.
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- Department of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030, USA.
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Ruef M, Mendel P, Scott WR. An organizational field approach to resource environments in healthcare: comparing entries of hospitals and home health agencies in the San Francisco Bay region. Health Serv Res 1998; 32:775-803. [PMID: 9460486 PMCID: PMC1070233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE To draw together insights from three perspectives (health economics, organizational ecology, and institutional theory) in order to clarify the factors that influence entries of providers into healthcare markets. A model centered on the concept of an organizational field is advanced as the level of analysis best suited to examining the assortment and interdependence of organizational populations and the institutional forces that shape this co-evolution. In particular, the model argues that: (1) different populations of healthcare providers partition fiscal, geographic, and demographic resource environments in order to ameliorate competition and introduce service complementarities; and (2) competitive barriers to entry within populations of providers vary systematically with regulatory regimens. DATA SOURCES County-level entries of hospitals and home health agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area using data from the American Hospital Association (1945-1991) and California's Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (1976-1991). Characteristics of the resource environment are derived from the Area Resource File (ARF) and selected government censuses. METHODS OF ANALYSIS A comparative design is applied to contrast influences on hospital and home health agency entries during the post-World War II period. Empirical estimates are obtained using Poisson and negative binomial regression models. RESULTS Hospital and HHA markets are partitioned primarily by the age and education of consumers and, to a lesser extent, by urbanization levels and public funding expenditures. Such resource partitioning allows independent HHAs to exist comfortably in concentrated hospital markets. For both hospitals and HHAs, the barriers to entry once generated by oligopolistic concentration have declined noticeably with the market-oriented reforms of the past 15 years. CONCLUSION A field-level perspective demonstrates that characteristics of local resource environments interact with interdependencies of provider populations and broader regulatory regimes to affect significantly the types of provider organizations likely to enter a given healthcare market.
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- M Ruef
- Department of Sociology, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Sociology, Stanford University, CA 94305
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We report two cases of cervical facet joint osteoarthritis associated with radiculopathy. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography showed a halo of enhancing soft tissue surrounding the facet joints and narrowing the neural foramen. Hypertrophic synovial masses were discovered and removed at the time of operation in each case, resulting in relief of the radicular symptoms.
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- R D Snow
- Department of Radiology, University of South Alabama, Mobile 36617
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- Department of Sociology, Stanford University
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Sandles LG, Freedman RS, Raber MN, Kavanagh J, Edwards CL, Scott WR, Wharton JT. Phase I evaluation of thio-TEPA in combination with cisplatin for advanced gynecologic malignancies. Gynecol Oncol 1990; 39:139-45. [PMID: 2121628 DOI: 10.1016/0090-8258(90)90421-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Thirty-five patients with advanced gynecologic malignancies were entered into a phase I study evaluating thio-TEPA in combination with cisplatin (50 mg/m2) intravenously every 4 weeks. Thirty-four patients were evaluable for toxicity and response, and one was evaluable for toxicity only. Median age was 53 years (range 28-72), and performance status less than or equal to 2. Prior treatment included chemotherapy in 21 patients, radiation in 15, hormonal therapy in 3, and immunotherapy in 1. Thio-TEPA was given to three or more patients at each of the following dose levels: 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, and 60 mg/m2. Thio-TEPA's primary toxicity was myelosuppression; at 50 mg/m2, grade 3 or 4 granulocytopenia occurred in 13 of 17 cycles, and grade 3 or 4 thrombocytopenia occurred in 8 of 17 cycles. The maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of thio-TEPA was 40 mg/m2; in 35 cycles at this dose, grade 3 or 4 granulocytopenia occurred in 19, and grade 3 or 4 thrombocytopenia occurred in 10 cycles; median granulocyte nadir was 1100 (range 110 to 3600) and median platelet nadir was 90,000 (range 10,000 to 289,000). Fifteen patients received three or more cycles at one dose level; cumulative myelosuppression was observed in 11. Two cases of partial alopecia occurred at 40 and 60 mg/m2 thio-TEPA. Responses were as follows: complete response, 5; partial response, 7; stable disease, 14; progressive disease, 8. In 16 patients with ovarian cancer (15 of whom had previously received cisplatin), there were 4 complete responses and 5 partial responses (overall response rate of 56%). The thio-TEPA dose recommended in combination with cisplatin (50 mg/m2) in phase II trials is 40 mg/m2. Cumulative hematologic toxicity may occur with this regimen.
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- L G Sandles
- Department of Gynecology, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030
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Over the past 18 months we have encountered 11 cases of symptomatic lumbar synovial cysts. This experience occurred during a period during which some 1,800 lumbar computed tomographic scans were done. The apparent increased incidence of these lesions is most likely due to the increased diagnostic ability made possible by the advent of high-resolution computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. This is a report and discussion of our 11 cases with a review of the literature. There is nothing distinctive in the physical findings or in the histories of our patients, but we have found, as have others, that high-resolution computed tomographic scanning and magnetic resonance imaging significantly enhance the diagnosis of such lesions.
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- E F Eyster
- Department of Neurosurgery, West Florida Regional Medical Center, Pensacola
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Scott WR. Conflicting levels of rationality: regulators, managers, and professionals in the medical care sector. J Health Adm Educ 1986; 3:113-31. [PMID: 10276329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Occasionally, patients with small supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhages exhibit the sudden onset of neurologic deficits, followed by rapid improvement during the next several days. We analyzed the computed tomographic (CT) and clinical features of a group of nine such patients, who were drawn from a series of 120 patients with intracerebral hemorrhage. The temporal pattern of illness was similar to that of a cerebral ischemic event, but the correct diagnosis of intracerebral hemorrhage was made on the basis of the CT findings.
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Alexander J, Scott WR. The impact of regulation on the administrative structure of hospitals: toward an analytic framework. Hosp Health Serv Adm 1984; 29:71-85. [PMID: 10266560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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The dramatic and recent regulatory changes in the hospital industry (e.g., TEFRA , DRG-based reimbursement) have given added impetus to the analytic framework developed here. Regulation will play an increasingly important role in the future of hospitals, affecting not only fiscal operations, but organizational and administrative arrangements as well. The conceptual framework developed in this article will be refined and augmented through empirical research. Healthcare executives will then have a stronger basis for adapting organizationally to changes in their regulatory environments, thereby increasing the effectiveness and survival of their institutions.
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Flood AB, Scott WR, Ewy W. Does practice make perfect? Part II: The relation between volume and outcomes and other hospital characteristics. Med Care 1984; 22:115-25. [PMID: 6422168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The effect of a greater volume of patients with similar conditions being treated at a hospital on the outcomes achieved is investigated for almost 500,000 selected surgical and medical patients treated in over 1,200 nonfederal United States hospitals. In Part I the authors found strong and consistent evidence for surgical patients that high volume is associated with better outcome; evidence for medical patients was mixed. In this paper the authors include other hospital variables related both to volume and outcome--hospital size, teaching status, and expenditures--to determine whether they mask the true relationship; still, strong and consistent evidence that greater volume produces better outcome was found for both surgical and medical patients. This relation was significant for low-, medium-, and high-risk patients. Among the hospital variations added, only size was consistently and strongly related to outcome; greater size was associated with poorer outcome after accounting for volume. The potential importance of the findings for reducing deaths and days in hospital on a national level is discussed. The evidence is strongly supportive of the need for policies that would promote greater regionalization of a given service, and not greater size, to obtain better quality outcome for patients treated.
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Flood AB, Scott WR, Ewy W. Does practice make perfect? Part I: The relation between hospital volume and outcomes for selected diagnostic categories. Med Care 1984; 22:98-114. [PMID: 6700280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The effect of a greater volume of patients with similar conditions being treated at a hospital on the outcomes achieved is studied using a variety of categories of patients, 15 surgical and 2 medical, and involving 550,000 patients treated in over 1,200 nonfederal United States acute care hospitals. After demonstrating that there are significant differences in the outcomes of patients, taking into account patient health status, the authors examine the impact of being treated in a hospital with a high or low volume of similar patients. Strong and consistent evidence is found that high volume is associated with better outcomes for surgical patients, which supports regionalizing patient care by procedure. Two additional variables, relative difficulty of the procedure and risk level of the patients, are analyzed to determine whether they change the relationship between volume and outcome. Some evidence is found that low-volume hospitals are associated with the poorest outcome for low-risk surgical patients. The evidence for medical patients is weak and mixed. Possible alternative explanations for the observed findings for surgical and medical patients are discussed.
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Five subjects slowly inhaled a 200-ml bolus of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) from residual volume (RV) followed by an O2-Ar mixture to total lung capacity, then exhaled to RV, either slowly or as rapidly as possible. Larger amounts of SF6 and N2 were recovered in fast than in slow exhalations. We calculated the gas volumes of the apical and basal halves of the parenchymal mass as functions of exhaled volume during slow exhalations from 1) the difference between SF6 recovered in slow and fast exhalations and 2) an estimate of the apex-to-base concentration profile of SF6 in the lung after inspiration. The maximal volume difference, where the apex contained 600 ml more gas than the base, occurred when 70% of the vital capacity had been exhaled. The same calculation, but using N2 data, gave unrealistically large volume differences. Apparently SF6 delivered as a bolus results in an apex-to-base gradient that is large relative to intraregional gradients, but dilution of the resident N2 by a non-N2 gas results in sizable intraregional gradients.
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Flood AB, Scott WR, Ewy W, Forrest WH. Effectiveness in professional organizations: the impact of surgeons and surgical staff organizations on the quality of care in hospitals. Health Serv Res 1982; 17:341-66. [PMID: 7152960 PMCID: PMC1068694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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In this research, we examine the relative importance of different structural units in a professional organization, the hospital, as they affect organizational effectiveness. The difficulties of measuring effectiveness in a complex professional organization are discussed, and an adjusted measure of surgical outcome is developed. Data are drawn from a prospective study of over 8,000 surgical patients treated by more than 500 surgeons in 15 hospitals throughout the nation. Two different types of analyses are presented, both indicating that hospital features have more impact on surgical outcomes than do surgeon characteristics. The second analysis assesses the relative importance of specific attributes of the hospital, surgical staff organization, and surgeon characteristics on surgical outcomes.
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